02/09/2024 16:01hs. Updated on 02/09/2024 19:07hs.
The Córdoba Open is defining the round of 16 that was not played last Thursday (due to the heavy rains that flooded the field), and at the same time, the quarterfinals that will define the best four tennis players of the competition have also begun. On this Friday’s day, The first classified was Sebastián Báez (26th) who is in the quarterfinals, where he will play with Facundo Díaz Acosta (95th). At the same time, Federico Coria (93rd) also celebrated and entered the semifinals.
Diaz Acosta played the last of the remaining matches of the round of 16 and He beat Thiago Tirante 6-2, 6-7 (5) and 6-2 in a very tight match. For its part, Coria beat Tomás Etcheverry (29th) 6-3 and 6-4 in a duel without problems and became the first semi-finalist of the contest.
Coria advances at a firm pace.
For Fede, who obtained his best win by ranking before El Flaco, these will be his fifth semi-finals in ATP tournamentsthird in the Córdoba championship, and also has the Guaranteed entry to the Argentina Open without having to go through the classification for having achieved the Special Exempt.
For Díaz Acosta and Báez the day was not over, because they still They have to face each other in a few hours to see who is the other classified for the preliminary phase of the finalalthough they are at the bottom of the table and could face Coria in a possible final.
In search of the bi
Báez, for his part, beat the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (112th) by 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4, and he was the first Argentine to celebrate on the day. The champion in 2023 won a great game on the center court of the Mario Kempes Sports Center and took his first step in defending the title from last season.
Báez won a great game (@CordobaOpen).
History had started awry for the Buenos Aires native: he began a complicated first set against the Bolivian, who took a 4-1 lead (with a double break against him) and Although he later approached him on the scoreboard (he evened 4-4), his rival won the first set 6-4.
For the second set, very tight in each game, the last champion won a lead that left him with a 4-1 advantage and, from there, He quickly took each point to equalize the process, make it 6-3 and reach the end with the clean and jerk.
Already in the last part, it seemed that history would be defined quickly with a quick 4-0 for Báez, but the Bolivian did not give in and made three games in a row. However, The Argentine did not win, and with the final 6-4 he was left with a great game of 2h15m.
Báez and Dellien (@CordobaOpen).
This was Báez’s second match and second victory against Dellien, given that I had already defeated him in the quarterfinals of the Concepción challenger in Chile in 2021where he had beaten him double 6-1 in less than an hour.
More matches from the Córdoba Open
On this Friday day in which Báez added his first victory in the current edition of the contest and plays against Acosta for the quarterfinals, where he could not reach Román Burruchaga (170°), who lost to the German Yannick Hanfmann (59th) by 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4.
The German will face the Italian Luciano Darderi (136th) at the end of the day. The other one who will look for the semis is Facundo Bagnis (207th) against the Spanish James Munar (74°).
2024-02-09 22:07:48
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