diego schwartzman could not get out of the very bad moment that since the middle of last year and was eliminated from the Argentina Open on the night of his debut, when he fell to the Spanish Bernabe Zapata Miralles by 6-1 and 6-3 in the match that completed the round of 16.
schwartzmanranked 32nd in the ranking atpsaid goodbye to the tournament after one hour and 17 minutes of play, in the game that closed the day at the Club Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis. The 30-year-old Argentinian has lost 12 of the last 13 games he has played over the last six months and next week will follow his precipitous slide down the rankings, as he drops to 38th place.
He little, champion in Buenos Aires in 2021 and a two-time finalist, in 2019 and 2022, played without confidence from the start of the game and found an opponent who returned everything. The Spaniard will run into an Argentine tennis player again this Friday, when he faces in the quarterfinals Francisco Cerundolothat comes from defeating the Mallorcan Jaume Munar by 6-2 and 6-1.
The others who advanced to the quarterfinals were the Peruvian John Paul Varillas (101), and the Italian lorenzo musetti (20), third seed of the tournament. rods eliminated the austrian Dominic Thiem (99), twice champion in Buenos Aires and winner of the US Open in 2020, after beating him 6-4 and 6-4. While Musetti I take Cordoba out of the tournament Pedro Cachin (68) after beating him 6-2 and 6-3 in an intense game that lasted an hour and 22 minutes.
