Schwartzman could not with the power of Tsitsipas and said goodbye to Roland Garros

Diego ‘Peque’ Schwartzman could not this afternoon with the Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipasseeded fifth, who demolished him in three sets and eliminated him from the Tennis Open in Roland Garrosin the third round, within the framework of the second Grand Slam of the season.

In one of the matches played this Friday at the Suzanne Lenglen court, the 30-year-old tennis player from Buenos Aires, located in position 95 of the ATP world ranking, clearly succumbed to the native of Athens, in two hours and three minutes, on the dust of brick of the traditional Parisian tennis complex.

The final score in favor of Tsitsipas, who advanced to the round of 16, was 6-2, 6-2 and 6-3.

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Schwartzman, who committed six double faults and only won 58 percent of the points with his first serve, could not face the power of the Greek, who only reduced his level of efficiency in the third set.

In this way, Tsitsipas went on to command the series of clashes against each other 5-2, with today’s victory and the previous ones in Barcelona 2018, Cincinnati Masters 1000 and Monte Carlo plus Laver Cup, the last three in 2022.

The two successes of the ‘Little One’ were in Antwerp 2017 and the 2022 Team World Cup, held in Australia.

The next rival of the Greek player will be the Austrian Sebastian Ofner (118), who defeated the Italian Fabio Fognini (130), with chapters of 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6 and 6-4.

The number 3 in the world, the Serbian Novak Djokovicbeat the Spanish in straight sets Alexander Davidovich Fokina (29) to access the round of 16.

The tennis player who has won 22 titles in Grand Slam tournaments suffered some shocks in the first segments, but then solidly resolved the commitment by winning 7-6, 7-6 and 6-2, in 3 hours and 36 minutes of play.

“I think if I had lost one of the first two sets, it would have gone for five hours.” ⏳

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“I think if I had lost either of the first two sets, the match would have lasted five hours.” ‘Nole’ expressed in the press conference after the match, to show the hardness of the commitment that he carried out.

Djokovic will face off in the next instance with the winner of the duel cheered by the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (94) and the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (14).

In other results, the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (18) beat English 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4 Cameron Norrie (13) and Russian Karen Khachanov (11) overtook the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (108), with partials of 6-4, 6-1, 3-6 and 7-6.

In addition, the also Italian Lorenzo Sonego (48) achieved a good win over the Russian Andrey Rublev (7), after a two-set deficit, with segments of 5-7, 0-6, 6-3, 7-6 and 6-3.

The other Argentines still in the race will play their respective third-round matches this Saturday in the Parisian contest in the Bois de Boulogne neighborhood, with prizes of $43,900,000, between the male and female teams.

the porteño Francisco Cerundolo (23) will meet American favorite Taylor Fritz (8). the platense Thomas Etcheverry (49), for his part, will face Croatian Borna Coric (16), who has already eliminated two other Argentine players: Federico Coria (96) from Rosario and Pedro Cachín (64) from Cordoba.

For his part, the Bragadian Genaro Olivieri (231), who comes from the classification, will have a very difficult match against the Danish Holger Rune (6).