Diego Schwartzman and a day of fury: the defeat and destruction of the racket

Diego Schwartzmann He had one of those days that no tennis player would want to have. One of those games where things don’t go your way and inevitably end up with a smashed racket. Although these behaviors of the small within the circuit, everyone can have a day of fury and this Tuesday was his turn.

The Argentine, number 14 in the ranking, fell 7-5 and 6-4 against the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori (42nd), in two hours and 22 minutes, and was fired in the first round of Hamburg ATP 500. New blow for the porteño, who is not experiencing his best moment of the season.

Is that after the elimination in the round of 16 Roland Garros, fell on his Queen’s debut, lost in the round of 16 at Eastbourne ATP 250he said goodbye in the second round of Wimbledon and I couldn’t with Pablo Carreño Busta in the quarter-finals of Bastad. But beyond the results, his level is far from what led him to be the protagonist in the first part of the season, where he was a finalist in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro and semi-finalist in Córdoba and Barcelona.

Against Ruusuvuori, Peque never found his game, it was difficult for him to put several consecutive points in favor and moreover the Finn struck in key moments of the match. Furthermore, he was seen uncomfortable and expressed it to Juan Ignacio Chela, his coach, in various sections of the meeting.. In one of those awkward moments It was when the destruction of the racket and the subsequent warning of the referee came, that he warned him for his action.

This was Peque’s sixth presentation in Hamburg, where he never managed to get through the quarter-finals.

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