Francisco Cerúndo and a different week: what is it like to play a five -block tournament of his house | ATP Tour

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Closed and a different week: what is it like to play a five -block tournament of his house

The No. 28 of the PIF ATP Rankings is the racket No. 1 of Argentina

February 10, 2025

For Francisco Cerúando, the IEB+ Argentina Open is a tournament that enjoys no other at the ATP Tour. Not only for playing in Buenos Aires, No. 28 of the PIF ATP Rankings literally lives five blocks from Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis.

The proximity to the event makes it closing it, I can avoid, for example, the life of a hotel or “go and go” to taste to your home, in your car, bike or even walking.

Not only that, closing it, the pleasure of eating homemade food is given and you can share with your family and friends the day to day. In fact, on the outskirts of the club is where the family dog, a black labrador called Milos. “I can train in the morning, go to my house, sleep a nap in my bed and, in the afternoon, go bullshit with my friends, to take some mates … the same thing on the game days,” he acknowledges by closing it, in Relaxed tone, who wants to take advantage of this to get out of the “bubble” of a tournament while focusing on its sports goals.

Likewise, the Buenos Aires Tournament is a known place that has come as a fan almost the last fifteen years without missing once and where he began to feel a true elite tennis player, reaching his first ATP Tour final four years ago. Now, as the first national racket, it will be one of the greatest hope in the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis, which has had just five Argentine champions in its twenty -five editions (Guillermo Coria, Gastón Gaudio, Juan Mónaco, David Nalbandian and Diego Schwartzman).

“It is a tournament that I really like to play it, that I have done well, I have won good games and the fact that you play well near home makes me enjoy it from day 1 and like no other,” he said giving him to Atptour. com, before debuting Tuesday against Luciano Darderi, to whom he fell the only time they played at the Lexus ATP Head2head. This Monday he advanced to R2 de double with his friend Tomás Etcheverry.

How does it arrive by chering it? “I feel that I am playing well, I bring good feelings after Australia and it is a very competitive picture of this year,” he considered and finished: “Zverev can be the maximum favorite, but I think it is very distributed and anyone can surprise and take it and take it and take it and take it Hopefully I am in the final instances, ”he said about the demand of the contest that will have No. 2 of the world as the first preclassified.

Cerúndo, of a modern tennis and powerful blows, he acknowledges that he feels very comfortable with the way he is playing and where the tour goes, in terms of tennis. However, the Argentine who has won a title for the last three years (Bastad, 2022, Eastbourne, 2023, and Umag, 2024), says that parity is total and “they are all winning with all.”

“Obviously a Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev, too, there are a step up, but then all the games are hard … You can enter as a favorite but you played a little badly and lost,” he said. “It is something that players talk in the circuit, it is played faster and faster, without so much tactics, and each tournament is an opportunity for everyone,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, closing it confirmed that he will have a new incorporation into his team and will add as second coach the experienced Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas, ancient No. 19 of the world who retired and announced his retirement in 2024 and did not hesitate when he was called to accompany the Argentine. “We were looking for a second coach to contribute to the team and they occurred to them Pablito. He was not with intentions to train in professionalism, but he liked the idea, he felt comfortable. We train together this week, we had a great time, “he said chering it.

For the eldest of the brothers chering it, in addition, it will be special to compete a main box of an ATP Tour tournament with his brother Juan Manuel, who managed to spend the previous phase this weekend and, to overcome Román Burrughaga in the R1 , could be his rival in the next round if both manage to advance.

“I am the first one that I want to do well. You have to create it because it is on the right track with this new more offensive style of play. I want you to be in the top 100, playing ATP and sharing with me, ”he concluded.