The Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo suffered a shock defeat at the start of the 2024 season, at the ATP 250 in Auckland, New Zealand. The man from Buenos Aires, 25 years old and 19th in the world ranking ATPhe lost easily in a second round match against the Frenchman Alexandre Müller (79), with partials of 6-1 and 6-1, in just 66 minutes.
In this way the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers accumulated his second setback of the yearin the same number of presentations, given that on the first day of the year he had lost against the Spanish Roberto Battista Agut (57), in Hong Kong.
“A disaster, very bad,” Fran wrote on her social networks. And she added: “There’s no choice but to stick with it and keep trying.”
These disastrous first two weeks of 2024 for Fran were equally bad for his Argentina Davis Cup team mates, Sebastián Báez and Tomás Etcheverry, who also fell in their opening performances in Brisbane and Adelaide. News that raises alarm ahead of the Australian Open.
A disaster, very bad????♂️
There is no choice but to breastfeed and keep trying????????— Francisco Cerúndolo (@FranCerundolo) January 10, 2024
As for the first Grand Slam of the year, the saddest news so far in 2024 involved Diego Schwartzman. Relegated in the rankings, Peque was preparing to play the qualifiers in Melbourne but fell in his second duel and was excluded from Australia for the first time in 10 years and after playing 36 major tournaments in a row.
But returning to Auckland, the winner of Cerúndolo, the Frenchman Muller, will meet in the quarterfinals the winner of the duel between the Japanese Taro Daniel (74) and the Australian Max Purcell (45).
The tournament’s number 1 seed, American Ben Shelton (16), will play his debut match against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (65).
Source: Clarin
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