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Closing it ends his drought in Santiago

Your next opponent will be Etcheverry

February 26, 2025

Francisco Cerú was two points to lose this Wednesday at the Movistar Chile Open, and to continue without victories in his career in this event. However, the Argentine could with the tension of IR 4/5 with his serve in the Decisive Tie-Break and won 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (5) before the German Yannick Hanfmann.

The first series of the contest had lost its first two games in this contest, in 2021 (p. With Martin) and in 2023 (p. With Etcheverry). And this Wednesday he had to suffer to avoid the same outcome. Although set and break up (6-2, 3-2), the Argentine lost his serve for the first time and the game did not be the same again.

No. 109 of the world broke back in 5-4 and send the encounter to a decisive in which ‘Fran’ could not take advantage of the advantage of going up (2-0). The German, ex No. 45 of the world, broke in 2-1 and led to an equality that remained until the Tie-Break.

The Argentine remained firm and from 4/5 in the tiebreaker he connected a Winner and benefited from two rival errors to keep the match at two hours and 28 minutes of play, and to advance to the rooms for the third time in the year (also in Buenos Aires and Rio). His next opponent will be his compatriot Tomás Etcheverry, who leads 2-0 the Lexus ATP Headtohead between them and who comes from beating 6-2, 6-4 to the local Cristian Garín.

“I am very happy to have achieved victory,” said the world No. 26. “I felt very good at the beginning of the second set, I felt that I had control of the game and was playing very well. The last two years that I came here did not play well and today I felt good. ”

“After that, he had a break and I think I started to feel a little nervous and I wasn’t playing as before. He played much better and after that it was a very difficult game, ”added the 26-year-old right-hander, which now has 9-4 record in the season.

In other results of the day, the Serbian Laslo Djere gave the surprise to beat the Spanish Pedro Martínez, a preclassified fourth and former champion of the tournament, with partials of 6-1, 6-4 in just 82 minutes of play. His next opponent will be the Portuguese Jaime Faria, who comes from beating Brazilian Gustavo Heide 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4.

In addition, in backward meetings of First Round, the Argentine Federico Coria exceeded 6-1, 6-0 to Tomás Barrios to quote another Chilean in the next instance: Alejandro Tabilo, second head of series. Francisco Comesaña, meanwhile, beat 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4) to Felipe Méligeni and will now collide his compatriot Sebastián Báez, current champion of the tournament.