Argentine tennis player Diego Schwartzman defeated the Hungarian Martin Fucsovics57 in the world, in the second round of the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo 6-0 and 7-6 (7-4) and advanced to round 16 of the tournament.

“Little One”, located 16th in the ATP world rankings, emerged at the Principality on Monday with a tight first-round victory against Russian Karen Khachanov (24) by 7-6 ( 7-5). ), 3-6 and 6-3.

The 29-year-old Argentine has played twice in the Hungarian, with a win at Roland Garros 2019 and a loss at Wimbledon 2020.

Schwartzman, a finalist this year at the Argentina Open and in Rio de Janeiro, will now find himself in the next round with the winner of the game between Canadian Félix Auger Aliassime (9) or Italian Lorenzo Musetti (83) .

Play Delbonis

Delbonis (34), for his part, also defeated Spanish Jaume Munar (105) in the first round on Monday 6-4, 3-6 and 6-4, and not before the 13 will have a very tough rival, the German Zverev (3), second favorite for the title in Monte Carlo behind Serbian Novak Djokovic (1), who has already been eliminated from the tournament.

The 31-year-old Argentine lost to Zverev the same time they met, both in 2019 and on clay, at the Geneva and Hamburg ATPs.

The winner of the cross between “Delbo” and Zverev will play in the next round against Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta (19) or Kazakh Alexander Bublik (36).

The Monte Carlo Masters 1000 were played on a clay surface, handing out prizes of 5,415,410 euros and left without Djokovic, who surprisingly lost yesterday to Spanish Alexander Davidovich Fokina (46) 6-3, 6-7 (5 -7) and 6-1 in two hours and 56 minutes of play.

The Monte Carlo Masters 1000 has three Argentine champions in its history: Guillermo Vilas in 1976 and 1982; Alberto “Luli” Mancini in 1989 and Guillermo “Mago” Coria in 2004.