Federico Coria This Thursday he gave one of the big blows at the ATP in Buenos Aires. The 106th in the world and younger brother of the legendary Drybeat the British 6-2, 4-6 and 6-3 Cameron Norrie and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament that has the Spanish as a big favorite Carlos Alcaraznumber two in the world ranking, who faces Camilo Ugo Carabelli.
Fefo needed two hours and 20 minutes to take out Norrie, who was in the top ten and today is 20th in the world. He kept the first set, then gave up the second, but gave a show of authority in the last chapter to remove one of the last finalists from the contest.
It is the fourth victory over a top 20 in his career for Coria, who advances for the second time to the quarterfinals of the tournament played at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis. Before he had won against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (Lyon 2022) and the Chilean Cristian Garin in duplicate (Bastad 2021 and Rio 2022). It is also a great February for Fefo, since last week he had been a semi-finalist at the ATP in Córdoba.
“It was the best victory of my career. Beating Cameron who was Top 10 not long ago and doing it here in Buenos Aires deserves me to consider it,” said Coria, who could not erase the smile from his face, at the press conference and now awaits the winner of the duel between Sebastián Báez and Luciano Darderi, who are in charge of closing the day in Palermo.
In the first round, the Italian Andrea Vavassori (152), had taken another step in a great campaign since qualifying, and eliminated the Serbian Laslo Djere with partials of 6-4 and 7-5.
Vavassori, 28, also has access to important events, and will meet in the quarterfinals with the winner of the match that will later be held by Alcaraz, the top favorite, and Ugo Carabelli.
2024-02-15 21:07:00
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