The Argentine diego schwartzmann (25th in the ATP ranking) lost this morning against the American JJ Wolf (66), 6-1, 6-4 and 6-4, in one hour and 43 minutes, and was eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open tennis.
Schwartzman has since entered the first Grand Slam of 2023 in poor shape suffered a muscle injury last week and had to leave for the Auckland contest.
The 30-year-old from Buenos Aires, due to his physical disadvantage, had to work hard to overcome the opening round of the Oceanic Open against the Ukrainian Oleksii Krutykh 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 and 7-6 in three hours and 55 minutes.
Wolf, 24, is playing in his first Australian Open but last season picked up valuable wins against Holger Rune of Denmark and Denis Shapovalov of Canada.
The first set was settled in just 26 minutes with an irregular Schwartzmann, who improved her serve a bit in the second set. However, the American broke serve in the ninth game (they were 4-4), and won the second set, a situation that was repeated in the third of the same game.
El Peque summed up the hard defeat with an Instagram story in which he is seen suffering from the match and with two emojis depicting the beatings suffered on the pitch.
Wolf will now play against his compatriot michael mmoh (109 in the ATP and 25 years old) who gave the surprise by beating the German Alexander Zverev (13) for 6-7 (7-1 tie break), 6-4, 6-3 and 6-2.
Now the only Argentine who continues in the Open is Francis Cerundolo (30 in the standings and 24 years old) who tomorrow will play in the third round against the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (7 and 22 years old).
Source: Telam
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