Barcelona ATP 500: Triumph of Etcheverry and fall of Trungelliti in the land of the traditional Conde de Godó

The Argentine Tomás Martin Etcheverry advanced this Monday to the second round of the Barcelona ATP 500the traditional Spanish tournament of Conde de Godó, beating the local player in his debut Pablo Andujar by 6-2 and 7-5. Marco Trungelliti, from Santiago, was unable to follow in his footsteps and was eliminated.

Etcheverry, ranked 59 in the ATP world rankings, made a good presentation and beat local Andújar (323), after 2 hours and 1 minute of play.

The man from La Plata, finalist eight days ago in the ATP 250 in Houston, will face another Spaniard in the second round: Alexander Davidovich Fokina (38), which will debut directly in this instance of the Catalan competition.

Andújar, for his part, said goodbye to the Barcelona Open forever. At 37, he
Cuenca, who is playing his last season as a professional, thus closed his eleventh participation in Godó, of which he was a finalist in 2015, when he lost the final against the Japanese Kei Nishikori.

And it is that Andújar has always been an established specialist on slow courts, a surface on which he has won the four titles of his career (Casablanca 2011 and 2012, Gstaad 2014 and Marrakech 2018).

Meanwhile, Trungelliti (240), from Santiago, from the previous classification of the competition, fell against the Chilean Nicholas Jarry (51) for 7-5 and 6-3, after 1 hour and 50 minutes of action.

This edition of Conde de Godó will see the participation of three other Argentines: the porteños Francis Cerundolo AND Diego Schwarzmann and the Cordovan Pedro Cachin.

Fran Cerúndolo will appear directly in the second round of the contest and awaits a rival; Meanwhile him small Schwarztman (48) will make his debut against the Chinese Yib Wu (56) and Cachín of Cordoba will make their debut against the Dutchman Gijs Brouwer (121), both tomorrow.

The ATP 500 in Barcelona takes place on clay courts, will distribute a total prize pool of 2,872,435 euros and has the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, number 2 in the world, as the favourite.

Source: Telam