Diego schwartzman, the first representative of Argentine men's tennis to return to activity after the pandemic of Coronavirus, debuted at the Masters 1000 of Cincinnati with a win against the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
The 28-year-old tennis player from Buenos Aires, located in the number position 13 of the ATP ranking, was imposed on Ruud, located in position 36 of that order, with partials of 7-6 (2) and 6-3, in one hour and 55 minutes of play.
It was the fourth victory that the nicknamed Small he won in equal numbers of games against the Norwegian tennis player, whom he had beaten in 2018 at the Australian Open, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg.
In the next round, it will be measured with the local Reilly opelka (39), who eliminated the British Cameron Norrie, a player from the classification, in his premiere.
Schwartzman He is the only Argentine in the main singles draw of the US contest, which takes place on hard surfaces and distributes $ 4,222,190 in prizes.
He had not played professionally since February this year, when he was eliminated in the semifinals of the ATP of good ones Aires versus portuguese Pedro Sousa.
In doubles, the Mar del Plata Horatio Zeballos and spanish Marcel Granollers they will face the Indonesian in the first round Rohan Boppana and the canadian Denis Shapovalov.