Francisco Cerundolo (30th)who was going to participate in the Auckland ATP 250 and was the fourth best seed, announced through his social networks that he will not play the tournament in the end.
“Unfortunately due to abdominal discomfort I had to get off the Auckland ATP 250. With my team we decided that this was the best decision. Now we are going to Melbourne to recover and try to compete at 100% in the Australian Open. To continue “ He expressed the second best racket in Argentine tennis.
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The man born in Buenos Aires had just played in the United Cup with Argentina, in which he fell in his two matches. The first against Arthur Rinderknech (4-6 and 2-6) and the second against Borna Coric (5-7 and 4-6).
After the loss of the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers, who entered as Lucky Loser was the Portuguese Joao Sousa (82nd), who had lost in qualifying to the American Christopher Eubanks. The European will enter directly in the second round for the bye that Francisco had for being one of the best four seeded and will debut against the Frenchman Richard Gasquet (67th) who comes from beating the Australian Kiranpal Pannu.
