Etcheverry offers its first quarter-final at Roland-Garros

Yoshihito Nishioka is definitely cursed in the round of 16 of the Grand Slam tournaments. After having lived a real nightmare against Karen Khachanov at the Australian Open this year (led 6-0, 6-0, 2-0, he lost 7-6 in the third set), the Japanese of 27 years, 33rd in the world, was beaten by a comparable score (but reversed) at the same stage of the competition at Roland-Garros against Tomas Martin Etcheverry (7-6 [8]6-0, 6-1, a 2h04).

The double bubble was taking shape when, after calling on the healer, Nishioka won a white service game by releasing his left-handed round shots. He offered himself a little respite in the next game with two break chances but Etcheverry erased them before falling to his knees after a 27th unforced error from his opponent. In the quarter-finals, Etcheverry, the first Argentinian at this stage of the competition since Diego Schwartzman in 2020, will face Alexander Zverev, an easy winner of Grigor Dimitrov.