last monday Justin Engel made history at the tournament in Almaty (Kazakhstan) by becoming the first player born in 2007 to win an ATP Tour matchthe youngest since Carlos Alcaraz won Rio 2020 at age 16.
He took advantage of an invitation to the tournament to defeat Coleman Wong, 20 years oldfrom Hong Kong and training at the Rafa Nadal Academy, by 7-5 and 6-4, a victory that allowed him to face Francisco Cerúndolo in the round of 16, already firmly among the solid tennis players in circuit.
In this case There were no surprises, and the Argentine, world number 31, took the victory 6-4 and 7-6(3). The tournament’s fourth seed managed to break her rival’s serve in the first game and held on to take the set 6-4.
The second set started like the first, but Cerúndolo, in the tenth game of the set, lost his serve and had to close the match, which lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes, in a tie-break.
The Argentine will face the winner of the match between Russian Aslan Karatsev, 139 in ATP, and Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko (61) in the quarterfinals.
Source: La Verdad
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