He defeated the Spanish Pol Martín Tiffon in three sets after almost three and a half hours of the match. This Saturday he will face Thiago Tirante from La Plata in the ITF M25 in San Miguel de Tucumán.
Francisco Comesaña from Mar del Plata agreed this Friday to the semifinals of the ITF M25 in San Miguel de Tucumán, beating the Spanish Pol Martín Tiffon, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 and 6-4after a tremendous battle of three hours and 24 minutes.
Comesaña (22 years old, 297th in the world ranking), prevailed over Tiffon (23 years old, 276th and seventh favorite), whom he defeated for the second time in as many confrontations between the two.
This Saturday, In the semifinals, the man from Mar del Plata will meet Thiago Tirant from La Platae (230th and top seed, who ranked 161st in August of last year and plays a wild card). In the quarterfinals, Tirante defeated Frenchman Terence Atmane (8th seed), 6-4, 6-2.
The Tucuman contest is played at Club Las Lomitas, in the Yerba Buena residential neighborhood, in the provincial capital, on brick dust and with $25,000 in prizes.
Argentine semifinal in Chile
Argentines Tomás Martín Etcheverry and Sebastián Báez won their respective quarterfinal matches at the ATP 250 in Santiago de Chile and will face each other in the semifinals this Saturday.
Etcheverry (76th in the world) reached this stage for the first time in ATP category tournaments, with a great performance to overcome Serbian Dusan Lajovic (75th), 6-1 and 6-2.
The 23-year-old tennis player from La Plata had just eliminated the Italian Fabio Fognini (82nd) and his compatriot Francisco Cerúndolo (32nd), second favorite for the title, in the previous rounds.
For his part, Báez (35th and third favorite) defeated the Serbian Laslo Djere (55th), 7-6 (7-4) and 6-4. Báez, 22 years old and champion this year at the Córdoba Open, was a finalist last year in Santiago and in this edition he beat Chilean Cristian Garín (100th) in his debut, directly in the round of 16.
The ATP 250 in Santiago distributes prizes of $718,245 and closes the tour on brick dust in South America, which included the Córdoba Open, the Argentina Open and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro.
Djokovic’s first loss
The number one in world tennis, Novak Djokovic, suffered his first defeat of the season this Friday when he fell to Russian Daniil Medvedev, 6-4, 6-4, after 1 hour and 35 minutes in one of the ATP 500 semifinals. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, who had a superlative level of tennis.
The Serbian, five-time champion of the tournament (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2020), ended a 20-match winning streak that included crowning the Australian Open, his 22nd Grand Slam title, and the Adelaide ATP 250 , in January, plus the ATP Finals in Turin in November 2022.
Medvedev, former number one and seventh in the current ranking, had not defeated “Nole” since the final of the US Open 2021 and with yesterday’s victory he shortened the history of confrontations between the two to 5-9.
The Russian will define the title with his compatriot Andrey Rublev, who in turn eliminated the German Alexander Zverev 6-3 and 7-6 (11-9), in the other semifinal.
