Fran Cerúndolo was beaten in Auckland and the bad news continues at the start of 2024 for Argentine tennis

The Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo suffered a resounding defeat at the start of the 2024 season, at the ATP 250 in Auckland, New Zealand. The man from Buenos Aires, 25 years old and ranked 19th in the world ranking ATPlost easily in a match for the second round of the contest against the Frenchman Alexandre Muller (79), with partials of 6-1 and 6-1, in just 66 minutes.

In this way, the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers accumulated his second setback of the yearin the same number of presentations, since on the first day of the year he had lost against the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut (57), a Hong Kong.

“A disaster, very bad,” Fran wrote on her social networks. And she added: “There is no choice but to stick with it and keep trying.”

These first two disastrous weeks of 2024 for Fran were equally negative for his teammates on the Argentine Davis Cup team, Sebastián Báez and Tomás Etcheverry, who also fell in their first performances in Brisbane and Adelaide. A news that sets off alarms in the run-up to the Australian Open.

Regarding the first Grand Slam of the year, the saddest news so far in 2024 involved Diego Schwartzman. Relegated in the ranking, Peque prepared to play the qualifiers in Melbourne but fell in his second duel and was left out of Australia for the first time in 10 years and after playing 36 major tournaments in a row.

But returning to Auckland, the winner of Cerúndolo, the Frenchman Muller, will meet in the quarterfinals with the winner of the duel between the Japanese Taro Daniel (74) and the Australian Max Purcell (45).

The number 1 seed of the tournament, the American Ben Shelton (16), will play his debut match against the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (65).

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