The Argentine was unable to beat his Norwegian counterpart and lost 6-1, 5-7 and 6-7(7) against the seventh seed in the tournament.
Thomas Etcheverry He fell this Sunday in the second round of the China Open 6-1, 5-7 and 6-7(7) in 2 hours and 57 minutes against the Norwegian. Casper Ruudseventh seed in the tournament held in Beijing.
The game started with a break for Etcheverry, number 31 in the ATP rankings, who knew how to keep the first advantage gained on his serve and extend it to the fifth after consecutive double faults by Ruud. A Norwegian who suffered a lot on his first serves in the opening set (6/21), surrendering again with a break in favor of the tennis player born in La Plata sentencing the last point with a counter-slap that earned of public applause. present at the Lotus track of the capital complex.
In the second period the roles were reversed, with Ruud stealing the Argentine’s serve for the first time and gaining an advantage that he maintained despite Etcheverry’s aggressiveness at the net to regain it.
Something he achieved in the sixth game, after taking advantage of the third of his break balls, but he surrendered again in the eleventh, where the ninth racket in the ATP ranking knew how to take advantage of his three opportunities to achieve an important break. to win the second set.
The final set started evenly until the fifth game, where Ruud missed three opportunities to break the Argentine serve against Etcheverry who knew how to protect his serve with energy and inertia helping him to achieve the ‘break’ on the next return.
A short-lived advantage led the first duel between both rackets until the tie break where the Norwegian defeated the Argentine, allowing him to advance to the next round of the competition.
Ruud will face in the quarterfinals of this ATP 500 tournament in Beijing the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, currently world number two and top seed in the China Open, who eliminated Italian Lorenzo Musetti (n.18) 6-2 and 6-2 in a hour and 20 minutes.
Source: Tycsports
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