Sebastián Báez won the South American duel against the Colombian Galán and will clash with the 4th in the world

Sebastian Baez (29°) He beat the Colombian in the early hours of this Wednesday Daniel Galan (87th) and advanced for the first time to the third round of the Australian Open 2024where he will face the Italian Jannik Sinner, 4th in the world ranking. The start of the day was delayed by rain in Melbourne for approximately three hours.

The native of Billinghurst, province of Buenos Aires, achieved victory in four sets (7-5, 2-6, 6-2 and 6-4) and won the clash between South Americans after three hours and 14 minutes of play.

In this way, he managed to reach the third round of the first Grand Slam of the season for the first time in his career. Meanwhile, it is the second time that he has reached that stage if all the factors are taken into account. Majors. His first and until then only time had been in the US Open 2023where he lost to the Russian Daniil Medvedev.

Your next rival, Sinner, He hasn’t lost a set yet. in this competition. In his debut he beat the Dutchman Botic from the Zandschulp by 6-4, 7-5 and 6-3, while then he beat the also Dutch Jesper de Jong for triple 6-2.

Your compatriot Francisco Cerúndolo He did not have the same luck in his confrontation against Fabian Marozsan and said goodbye in the second round after losing 6-7 (5), 4-6 and 2-6.

The Hungarian won the tie-break to take the first set, then took the second set 6-4 and, finally, won 6-2 in the third chapter to win in straight sets.

While, Tomas EtcheverryAfter his resounding victory against the Scot Andy Murray, his duel against the experienced Frenchman Gael Monfils, former world number 6, is scheduled for this day.

In another of the featured matches of the day, world number one and ten Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic will see action. The Serbian will face the Australian Alexei Popyrin in the second round of the night match at the Rod Laver Arena, which will begin at 5 in the morning in Argentina with the duel between the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, defending champion, and the Czech Brenda Fruhvirtova .

So far, in addition to Cerúndolo, there have been three Argentine tennis players who have said goodbye to the first Grand Slam of the season in the men’s branch and are beginning to think about the South American tour of tournaments on clay.

Federico Coria He failed to overcome his debut, falling 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 with the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang; Pedro Cachín lost in four sets (4-6, 6-2, 6-3 and 6-4) against De Jong; and Facundo Díaz Acosta He struggled, but ended up being defeated by the American Taylor Fritz in five sets (4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 and 6-4).

Shortly before Báez’s triumph, the Argentine tennis player Nadia Podoroska He said goodbye to the contest. After having started with an overwhelming debut, by beating the Slovenian Tamara Zidansek in straight sets 2-0 and 6-1, the Rosario, number 63 in the WTA ranking, was defeated in the second round.

The only representative of Argentine tennis among women fell 6-2 and 6-3, in just one hour and four minutes, against the American Amanda Anisimovawhich is in 339th place after be away from the circuit for much of 2023 to prioritize her mental health.

Despite this period of inactivity, Anisimova had just hit a home run by eliminating the Russian in two sets (6-3 and 6-4). Ludmila Samsonova (14th) in the preliminary round of the Australian Open.

For its part, Coco Gauffthe 19-year-old current US Open champion, beat her compatriot Caroline Dolehide without major setbacks 7-6, 6-2, in one hour and 44 minutes, and advanced to the third round.