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Closing it, it opens firmly in Hamburg

The Argentine beat Martínez in Sets Corridos

May 18, 2025

Francisco Cerúndo has taken a step forward in the 2025 season showing an improved and more mature version of his tennis and continued with his good shape with a solid victory in the Bitpanda Hamburg Open this Sunday.

The Argentine is the sown room and signed a 6-2 and 6-3 victory against Pedro Martínez after an hour and 28 minutes of play. With 28 winning shots and seven breaks of serve on ten opportunities, closing it achieved its triumph No. 27 of the current season, and the 19th on brick dust.

“I played a good first set, hitting the ball well, not so much the second. It was hard but trusted my blows and what to do,” he said, after spending a start of the second manga with three breaks per side. The Argentine, who reached the final in Buenos Aires, the quarterfinals in Miami and Indian Wells, and the semifinals in Munich and the ATP Masters 1000 from Madrid at the beginning of the month, will now face Jiri Lehecka or Borna Gojo in R2.

“They are slow conditions and I like them, it is not something new to me, like Buenos Aires, and I hope to continue improving in the week,” he considered to closure.

Meanwhile, Luciano Darderi Aguó the German party on Sunday and surpassed the local Wild Card Diego dedura 6-1 and 6-4. The Italian dominated with his first service over the 70 minutes of the game, winning 90% (26/29) of the points after his first serve, according to Infosys ATP Stats, before the German #nextGenatp German Dedura, which debuted in Hamburg.

Darderi has good memories playing on beaten land in Germany, having reached the quarterfinals in Hamburg last season and the eighths in the ATP 500 of Munich in April. No. 46 of the PIF ATP Ranking will face the seventh head of series, Brandon Nakashima or Belgian Raphael Collignon.

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Cerúando is 11-1 in initial rounds in 2025 after losing against Carballes Baena in the first game of the year in Auckland and is on a streak of thirteen victories against rivals outside the Top 20 since he lost to No. 103 Djere in Santiago.