The Argentinian tennis player, ranked 9th, was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Polish Hubert Hurkacz, ranked 9th. There is no Argentinian representative left in Italy.
Argentine tennis player Sebastián Báez (19th) bid farewell to the Rome Masters 1000 tournament, losing to Polish Hubert Hurkacz in the 9th place in the last 16 rounds. With this result, there is no Argentinian tennis player left in the tournament, where he showed the best performance of his career before Roland Garros.
Báez, who had a good start to the match, could not maintain his resistance in the later stages of the match and was defeated by Avrupa in sets of 5-7, 7-6(4) and 6-4 in the fight that lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Báez achieved an important victory of his career in this tournament. In the third round, he attracted attention by defeating Danish Holger Rune, who ranked 12th in the ATP rankings.
Other match results from Rome Masters 1000 are as follows:
Alejandro Tabilo (Chile/N.29) advanced to the round by defeating Karen Khachanov (Russia/N.16) 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (12/10).
Zhang Zhizhen (China) advanced to the next round by beating Thiago Monteiro (Brazil) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3.
Alexander Zverev (Germany/N.3) won by defeating Nuno Borges (Portugal) 6-2, 7-5.
Taylor Fritz (USA/N.11) advanced to the round by beating Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria/N.8) 6-2, 6-7 (11/13), 6-1.
Nicolás Jarry (Chile/N.21) defeated Alexandre Muller (France) 7-5, 6-3.
Tommy Paul (USA/R.14) beat Daniil Medvedev (Russia/R.2) 6-1, 6-4 and advanced to the next round.