Diego Schwartzman began his Indian Wells journey with a 6-1, 6-2 win over fellow countryman Federico Coria.

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the year of Diego Schwartzman It didn’t start the way he had hoped, but now he got an important win that could spell pause. After four consecutive defeats in the first round, the Argentinian he beat compatriot Federico Coria 6-1, 6-2 on his Indian Wells Masters 1000 debut.

El Peque, number 38 in the world ranking, with his victory against the 64th in the world cut the five successive falls of the ATP circuit (Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago). He also had 13 falls in his last 14 games. With this conquest, he qualified for the round of 16 of what is considered “the fifth Grand Slam tournament”.

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Schwartzman, who committed 13 unforced errors and only 9 winners, took advantage of 31 misses from Coria, who managed to break serve once, while Peque did so 6 times. Moreover, he achieved 67% efficiency on the first serve, committed 2 double faults and took 67% of the service points, while his opponent achieved 72% efficiency, committed 3 double faults and won 40% of the service points. service points.

In the next round, he will have a very difficult obstacle, since he will face the Norwegian Casper Ruud, fourth best racquet and third seed. The European just had a free day in the opening phase. However, the albiceleste have a positive record against Ruud, whom they have beaten in five of the previous eight clashes, including the Indian Wells tournament itself in 2021.

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Recall that the first defeat of Buenos Aires was against Jeffrey John Wolf in Australia. Then he fell in the first round against Juan Manuel Cerúndolo in Córdoba, the Spaniard Bernabé Zapata Miralles in Buenos Aires, the Serbian Dusan Lajovic in Rio de Janeiro and the Chilean Nicolás Jarry in Santiago. Diego had just finished 2022 with seven consecutive falls and his mark in 2023 was 1-6.

The other Argentine who got off to a good start is Pedro Cachín de Cordoba, who won in the first round against Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-5, 6-3 after 1 hour and 26 minutes. In the next instance, he will collide with the German Alexander Zverev, who will enter to play directly in this instance.

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