Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez advance in the Shanghai Masters 1000

Argentine tennis players Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez advanced today to the third round of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, China. Meanwhile, Tomás Etcheverry was eliminated. Cerundolo, ranked 21st in the ATP world rankings, beat American Mackenzie McDonald (39th) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) after two and a quarter hours. In the next round, he will face the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (57th), who eliminated the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime (15th) by 7-6 (3), 4-6 and 6-3.For his part, Báez (27th), also entered the tournament directly in the second round, beat Dune Sweeny (273°), emerged from the classification, 6-2 and 6-4, Báez, 22 years old and champion this year in three tournaments, the Córdoba Open, Kitzbuhel (Austria) and Winston Salem (USA), will play their next match against the winner of the match that will animate the Italian Jannik Sinner (4th) and the American Marcos Girón (80th). For his part, the platense Tomás Etcheverry (31°) was eliminated in his presentation in the second round when he fell to the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (60°) by 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4 after an intense match that lasted for two hours and 25 minutes. Another Argentine, Diego Schwartzman (133rd), advanced yesterday to the second after winning over Frenchman Luca Van Assche (6th 9) by 5-7, 6-3 and 6-2 after two hours and 50 minutes of play. The 31-year-old Argentine will play his next match tomorrow against Czech Jiri Lehecka (29), who will enter the tournament directly in the second round. The “Peque” ended in Shanghai a streak of three months without winning a match, since last July 4 when he beat the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic in the opening round of Wimbledon, then fell to the Italian Jannik Sinner and then string together five losses in a row in his following tournaments.

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