Author: Chris Out @Thefanchild | Wednesday 12th February 2025
Diego Schwartzman He did not expect to come today’s clash with the seventh deployed Nicolas Jarry at Argentina Open in Buenos Aires. The former world no. 8, who plays in his last professional event, is ready for the next phase of his life.
But when he is on the red clay in his home country, you can never count it.
He just can’t help play tennis with a lion and the 32-year-old did it again on Wednesday when he lined Jarry 7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-3 to extend his career and set the second round of collision with Spanish Pedro Martinez.
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“I expected to lose if I was honest,” said the enthusiastic Schwartzman after the match. “I expected to cry a little after the match and be ready for emotions, but not for winning.”
It was a rough day in the office for Jarry, who made 79 unforced mistakes, but Credit Schwartzman for holding him on the run and forcing him to work for everything he got for a two-hour and 54-minute battle.
Schwartzman, supported by the passionate Argentine fan base, ordered three set points in the opening tongue that passed. Then he answered when Jarry took the middle set, turned a single break of the finals into 4-2 and served the match for the rest of the journey to win his 18th career victory in Buenos Aires and his 251.
Schwartzman, who announced his retirement at the beginning of last year, has already said he would say goodbye to the Grand Slams. He did not play from the US Open, but he has long received a wild card to play in Buenos Aires to finish his career looking at one of his emotional moments of the player.
In 2021 he won the title in Buenos Aires and then reached the finals in 2022. He debuted the four -time ATP title in Buenos Aires in 2013.
FONSECA wins on its debut
Many 18-year-olds Joao Fonseca On Wednesday it also gained great support, because the world no.
With the victory of Fonseca, he became the youngest player who won the match in Buenos Aires since 2004 and the third youngest in history. For Fonsec it was another blisters, which rained with regularity with regularity against the world no. 44.
