Spanish tennis players Carlos Alcaraz, Albert Ramos and Bernabe Zapataas well as the Sebastian Baezthe only survivor of the seven Argentines who started the competition, advanced this Thursday to quarterfinals of the Rio de Janeiro Openthe only ATP 500 tournament in South America.
The Chilean also advanced to the quarterfinals, which will be held on Friday in this Brazilian city. Nicholas Jarrythe Bolivian Hugo Dellienthe British Cameron Norrie and the serbian dusan lajovic.
in the next round Alcaraznumber two in the world, will measure up to Lajovic (80 ATP); bouquets (47 ATP) and shoes (63) the hero of a Spanish battle; baez (35 ATP) and Jarry (139 ATP) a South American rivalry; and norry (13 ATP) will deal with the surprising Dellien (111 ATP).
With the seeds in Rio they advanced to the quarterfinals Alcarazfirst favorite, and norrysecond favorite, who on Sunday starred in the final of the Argentina Open -with a victory for the Spaniard-, as well as the Baz, sixth favorite, and bouquetsseventh favorite
Alcarazdefending the title he won last year in Rio, advanced to the next round by eliminating 35-year-old Italian Fabio Fognini (86 ATP) 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 and also who he has. won the semifinals of the Brazilian tournament in 2022.
The 19-year-old tennis player from Murcia, first favorite in Brazil, struggled against the Italian in the first set, ending up losing due to mistakes in the main games, but from the second set he showed his best which is tennis at the moment and is completely dominant.
The until recently world number one and current United States Open champion benefited from a sprained ankle suffered by the San Remo man when he was down 4-1 in the second set and was hampered for the rest of the match. .
Espanyol’s opponent in the quarterfinals is dusan lajovic (80 ATP) defeated fellow Serbian Laslo Djere (57 ATP), champion in Rio de Janeiro in 2019, 6-2, 6-4 in the round of 16. Lajovic eliminated Argentine Diego Schwartzman, fifth favorite and champion in Brazil in 2018, in the first round.
The Spanish Albert Ramos and Bernabe Zapata They will meet in the quarterfinals after winning their commitments this Thursday. Ramos, the seventh favorite in Rio, defeated the Colombian Daniel Galán (88 ATP) 6-2, 6-4, and Zapata 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo (33 ATP) , the fourth favorite in the Brazilian tournament, which he reached the semifinals in 2022.
Another commitment on Friday will measure the Chilean Nicholas Jarry with the argentinian Sebastian Baez. Jarry defeated the Spanish Pedro Martínez (76 ATP) 6-2 and 6-2, and Báez, the best racket in Argentina at the moment, sixth favorite in Rio and new champion of the Córdoba Open, won 7- 5 and 7- 6 ( 6) to Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (81 ATP), who was a semifinalist in Argentina last week.
The other rivalry for the quarterfinals will be the star Norrie and Dellienwho beat Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and Slovakian Alex Molcan in their round of 16 match last Wednesday.
The ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, which takes place on the clay courts of the Brazilian Jockey Club and distributes prizes of 2.2 million dollars, is part of the clay tour in South America, which began with the Córdoba Open and the Argentina Open, and ends with next week at the ATP 250 in Santiago (Chile).
Source: La Verdad
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