Francisco Cerundolo advances to the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro

After an adverse start to the season, Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerundolo improved his level at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro. At the start of the day on Wednesday, he beat Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. Cerundolo, Argentina’s number one and ranked 22nd in the ATP world rankings, put in a very good performance and eliminated Spain’s Ramos Vinolas (96th) in one hour and 21 minutes of play. The Argentine, who had eliminated his compatriot Francisco Comesaña (119th) in the opening round, will face the winner of the match between Serbs Dusan Lajovic (58th) and Laslo Djere (35th) in the quarterfinals, who will meet later. It should be noted that Cerundolo returned to the top eight of a tournament on the professional circuit after almost seven months. The last time he reached this stage was at the 2023 edition of the ATP 250 in Bastad. The rest of the results of the Argentine tennis players at the ATP 500 in Rio de JaneiroThe Brazilian tournament, which takes place on clay courts, has three other Argentines: Facundo Díaz Acosta, Sebastián Báez and Mariano Navone.Díaz Acosta (59th), in the best moment of his career after having won the Argentina Open last Sunday in Buenos Aires, beat the Swiss Stan Wawrinka (67th) 7-5, 6-4. while Báez (30th) beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet (147th) 6-4, 6-3.Díaz Acosta and Báez will face each other tomorrow in the round of 16, which guarantees the presence of another Argentine tennis player among the eight best of the tournament. For his part, Mariano Navone (113th), a native of the Buenos Aires town of 9 de Julio, beat Federico Coria (85) from Rosario 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.The 22-year-old Argentine will play his next match in Rio against the German Yannick Hanfmann (56th), who beat the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (19th), finalist on Sunday of the Argentina Open. 1-6, 6-1 and 7-5.

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