17/04/2024 18:10hs.
The activity of the Count of Godó Trophy, better known as the Barcelona Open, and on the third day of competition, an Argentinian made a hit and managed to get into the round of 16. Is about Marco Trungelliti (1st), which surprised the Chilean Nicholas Jarry (22nd) and became the third national tennis player in the best 16 of the Catalan competition.
The 34-year-old from Santiago surpassed the Miami Masters quarterfinalist by two meters 7-6 (5) and 6-3 in two hours dunks on court 2 of the RCT in Barcelona and achieved his first double of wins followed in an ATP main draw since 2019.
After overcoming the previous classification, Trunge left behind an injury to a tendon in his right ankle; In the debut he had surpassed the Croatian Duje Ajdukovic (123°) by 6-2 y 7-6 (3) in his first victory in an ATP 500 main draw. This Thursday, after dropping the Chilean Jarry, it will be the turn of confront the Italian Matteo Arnaldi (40th).
Jarrythird Latin American in the ranking who had just done a good job at the Miami Open and so far this season (He beat Carlos Alcaraz in Buenos Aires), also fell against Tomas Etcheverry (30°) at the beginning of the month at the premiere of Monte Carlo Masters 1000 and he could not assert himself in his debut in Barcelona, where he arrived as ninth seed.
Trungelliti plays against Arnaldi.
With this victory, Trungelliti He joined Flaco Etcheverry and Facundo Díaz Acosta (53rd) who are already among the 16 best tennis players in the Spanish ATP 500, a tournament that is part of the European clay court tour that will end in Roland Garros.
Furthermore, this was the second most important victory of his career and the third top 50 he beat: the only one he had beaten better than Jarry is to the Croatian Marin Cilic, who was 10th when they faced each other in the first round of the 2016 Roland Garros.
With the victory consummated, Trungelliti did not hide his emotion: “This is beautiful because I am with my wife, my son and my mother, the amulet. But the work continues, it is not finished. It was a correct match from beginning to end, he is a server that puts pressure. It was key to win the first set because I feel he got messy in the second and I was able to break him. I gritted my teeth when I needed to, the most verbose I’ve played in a long time“.
Meanwhile, in the longest match of the day, the Spanish Jaume Munar fell in the second round against the Australian Jordan Thompson 6-4, 2-6 and 6-4, in a duel that lasted 3h10m.
Other games this Thursday
As Trungelliti was the only one of the Argentines who played on Wednesday, this Thursday will be the time for Etcheverry and Díaz Acosta to take the field. The platensewho comes from beating the Dominican Nick Hardt in the second round by 7-5 and 6-2, will face the American Brandon Nakashima (87th).
Etcheverry plays this Thursday.
For its part, Do withwho defeated the Croatian Borna Coric (32nd) in his debut 6-2 and 7-5 will do the same against the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (39th). Both looking to get into the quarterfinals.
2024-04-17 18:10:37
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