He Spanish tennis player Jaume Munar withdrew due to injury on Tuesday from the ATP 250 International tournament in Adelaidein Australia, before his match against Belgian David Goffin, so will not play in the round of 16 where Alejandro Davidovich and the Argentine Tomás Martín Etcheverry have been classified.
In the women’s box, Badosa already knows that American Ashlyn Krueger will be her rival.
Munar, who lost on Saturday in the semifinals of the Hong Kong tournament, missed out on Belgian David Goffin at the Adelaide tournament. The Belgian tennis player played his round of 32 match against Australian Rinky Hijikata, who lost against the local.
Along with the aforementioned Hijikata, the North Americans Nakashima and Giron, the French Cazaux and Guinard, the Serbian Kecmanovic, the Argentine Etcheverry and the Australian Li Tu have now qualified and will be looking to advance to the best eight.
Tomas Martín Etchevarry defeated the Australian Schoolkate relatively easily after winning both sets in less than two hours, going through the tiebreak in the first (7-6 (8) and 6-3).
The men’s round of 16 draw looks like this:
Tommy Paul (United States) – Manuel Guinard (France)
Rinky Hijikata (Australia) – Brandon Nakashima (United States)
Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) – Arthur Cazaux (France)
Marcos Giron (United States) – Denis Shapovalov (Canada)
Miomir Kecmanovic (Serbia) – Christopher O’Connell (Australia)
Li Tu (Australia) – Benjamin Bonzi (France)
Tomás M. Ectheverry (Argentina) – Thanasi Kokkinakis (Australia)
Alejandro Davidovich (Spain) – Sebastian Korda (United States)
On the women’s side, with yesterday’s win by Paula Badosa, the Spaniard confirmed her passage to the round of 16 where she now finds out who will be her rival, the American Ashlyn Krueger. In this round of the tournament, Jessica Pegula, number 7 in the WTA ranking and Badosa’s hypothetical rival in the quarterfinals, joined..
The Catalan will play his match this Wednesday, January 8, still waiting to know the match schedule.
The women’s round of 16 draw, awaiting a match between American Danielle Collins and Tunisian Ons Jabeur, is as follows:
Jessica Pegula (United States) – Maria Sakkari (Greece)
Ashlyn Krueger (United States) – Paula Badosa (Spain)
Collins or Jabeur (To be determined) – Yulia Putinseva (Kazakhstan)
Marketa Vondoursova (Czech Republic) – Diana Shnaider (Russia)
Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) – Madison Keys (United States)
Emerson Jones (Australia) – Daria Kasatkina (Russia)
Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) – Liudmila Samsonova (Russia)
Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) – Emma Navarro (United States)
Badosa has reached the top 10 of the WTA general classification and went fully into filming for the Australian Open, which starts on Sunday, January 12.
Source: La Verdad
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