The Argentina Open left Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club and had a national representative who advanced to the second round. In the debut of Pedro Cachín (68th), who had just lost in the first round of the Córdoba Open a week ago, the Cordovan from Bell Ville surpassed by 7-6 (2) y 6-4 to brazilian Thiago Monteiro (78°) y got into the round of 16 for the first time of the second tournament of the South American tour where he will have a hard stop: he will face the third best seed, the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (20th).
Under a hot day in the Buenos Aires capital, Pedro became strong and managed to beat the losing streak. The 27-year-old tennis player had suffered a tough defeat in his Davis Cup debut against the Finn Emil Ruusuvuori (43rd), which meant the Argentine elimination. In addition, Cachín was going through a drought of victories in the circuit. The last one had been against the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (77th) at the ATP 500 in Vienna on October 22. Since then, 0-8 was the right-handed record that came from falling against the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (107th), semifinalist of the Cordovan ATP held the previous week.
Cachín managed to start on top after taking a set that lasted 1h08m. With a break for each side (fourth and fifth games) and many failures in the first serves, Pedro became strong returning the Brazilian’s serves and scored three aces. That first set was defined in a tie-break, in which the Cordoba player achieved two mini-breaks to finally win the first set (7-6) of the game after a 7-2 final.
After getting that small advantage, the second set started as evenly as the first set ended. In Monteiro’s first two services, Cachín had the possibility of breaking (both 30-40), but the 28-year-old Brazilian managed to retake command after increasing his serving effectiveness. In the continuity of the set, the dominance continued in favor of the person in charge of the servealthough Pedro settled on the Buenos Aires brick dust and began to hit more comfortably to counteract his rival’s powerful right-hand smash: 4-4.
But in the ninth game the turning point in the match came after Pedro achieved break Monteiro’s service after a 0-40 that put Cordoba 4-5 on the scoreboard and with the opportunity to serve for the game. After a convincing service and countering the returns of the Brazilianfinally Cachín was left with the second by 6-4 on the central court and took the long-awaited victory, his first of the yearafter 1h57m of play.
The rest of the first day
In the first meeting of the day the duel of Spaniards took place. Bernabe Zapata Miralles (74th) surpassed by 6-1, 3-6 y 6-4 to his compatriot and friend Pedro Martinez (73rd) and became the first classified to the second round. The Valencian will face off in the round of 16 against Diego Schwartzman (32nd), the fourth best seed and champion of the tournament in 2021 and runner-up in 2022. In addition, the Serbian Laslo Djere (57th) defeated Fabio Fognini (66th) by 6- 4 and 6-4 and will find the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz. Guido Pella (723rd) closed, who after two hours of play lost against Spanish Jaume Munar (67th) 6-4, 7-5.
Argentine Tuesday
on the second day six Argentines will debut: at 1:00 p.m., Tomás Martín Etcheverry (82nd) vs. the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (107 °); at 15, Camilo Ugo Carabelli (127 °) vs. Colombian Daniel Galán (85th) and Francisco Cerúndolo (30th), best national racket, vs. the German Yannick Hanfmann (134th); at 5:00 p.m. Facundo Díaz Acosta (191°) and Federico Coria (49°) will face each other, and at 6:30 p.m. Sebastián Báez (36°) will appear vs. the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (90 °). By TyC Sports.
