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A few days before the start of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam of the season that will raise the curtain next Sunday, some Argentine players who have already secured a place in Paris are taking advantage of the ATP 250 tournaments that are being played this week to try to add pace. , triumphs and confidence. This is the case of Sebastián Báez (20th in the ranking) and Tomás Etcheverry (29th), who became quarterfinalists on the clay of Geneva and Lyon, respectively.
Báez, 23 years old, born in Billinghurst (San Martín match), defeated the Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3 and 6-0 (62nd). The Argentine leads the circuit in wins (19) and titles (2) on clay this season and is 17-2 against players ranked outside the top 50 on slow surfaces this year (only losing to then-N. (No. 136 Luciano Darderi in Córdoba and with No. 106 Federico Coria in Buenos Aires).
In Geneva, the player trained by Sebastián Gutiérrez will play his fifth quarterfinal of the season, all on clay. Seeded number 5 in Geneva (a competition in which Novak Djokovic is the first favorite; he received an invitation), Báez appeared among the best eight of an ATP Tour tournament this year in Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, besides Geneva, of course. In the Swiss competition he awaits the winner of the Norwegian Casper Ruud (second seed) and the Austrian – coming from the classification – Sebastian Ofner.
Summary of Báez’s triumph
About 150 kilometers from Geneva, in the French city of Lyon, Tommy Etcheverry from La Plata defeated Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (58th) 7-5, 3-0 and retired in one hour and 40 minutes. Thus, the player trained by Wally Grinóvero reached the quarterfinals of an ATP for the fifth time this season (he had already achieved it in Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Houston and Barcelona).
Tomás Etcheverry won in Lyon and advanced to the quarterfinalsAlex Caparros – Getty Images Europe
Etcheverry, who at Roland Garros will have the challenge of defending the quarterfinals held in 2023, in Lyon awaits the winner of the local Hugo Humbert (17th and first seeded in the competition) or the German Dominik Koepfer (67th). The Argentine is still in search of obtaining his first ATP title: up to this point he has played in the finals of Santiago and Houston 2023 and has not been able to win them.
Today, later, in the same tournament in Lyon, Buenos Aires native Francisco Cerúndolo, 23rd in the world and fourth seed, will compete against local Hugo Gaston (104th), in the round of 8.
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2024-05-22 12:31:00
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