US Open, day 5 LIVE: Pedro Cachín faces French Moutet in search of the round of 16

Argentine tennis player Pedro Cachinstarring in his best Grand Slam performance, he will face the Frenchman today Corentin Moutet for the third round of USEOpen.

Cachinranked 66th in the ATP world rankings, she will play no earlier than 14:00 (Argentine time) against moutetto (112), on court number 17 of the Billie Jean King Tennis Center complex, in the New York neighborhood of Queen’s, with ESPN television and the Star + platform.

The tennis player born in the Cordovan city of Bell Ville 27 years ago confirmed in New York how well he had done during the year, with his four Challengers titles in Madrid, Prague, Todi (Italy) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

In the only precedent with Moutet, Cordovan lost the Lyon Challenger final this year.

Cachín established himself in the third round of the US Open after beating Slovenian Aljaz Bedene (347) and local Brandon Holt (303).

In case of passage to the round of 16, Cachín will play in that case against the Norwegian Casper Ruud (7) or North America tommy paolo (3.4).

Schwartzman adds and follows

The other Argentine who continues at the top of the singles chart is Diego Schwartzman (16), who stabilized in the third round thanks to victories over American Jack Sock (107) and Australian Alexei Popyrin (84).

The “Little One”, which had its best performances in New York in its quarter-final arrivals in the 2017 and 2019 editions, will play its next game this Saturday against the American Frances Tiafoe (26), rival who leads 2- 1 in history.

Schwartzman beat the American at the Conde de Godó in Barcelona and the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, both won in 2021, and lost at the ATP in Vienna, also last year.

In case of passage to the second round, the “Little One” could meet in that case the Spaniard Rafael Nadal (3), big favorite in Saturday’s match against French Richard Gasquet (91), who has won the 17 times they met.

This year’s US Open will distribute a record number of prizes between the ATP and WTA tables totaling $ 60,100,000.

The US Open champions, male and female, will charge $ 2,600,000a figure higher than that of the other three “majors”: the Australian Open awarded 2,071,064 dollars, Roland Garros 2,290,354 and Wimbledon 2,507,460 of the US currency.