\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Updated May 27, 3.50 p.m.<\/p>\n
Day three at Roland Garros brought another flurry of wins for Argentine tennis stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juan Manuel Cer\u00fandolo, Francisco Comesa\u00f1a, Facundo D\u00edaz Acosta, and Rom\u00e1n Burruchaga all moved to the second round on Tuesday, with Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez the only one out of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Buenos Aires Open 2024 champion Diaz Acosta was the first to secure a ticket for the next round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old, currently 151 in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, struggled with fitness for a long time after that win, but has been trending up recently with victories at the Tigre II, Sao Leopoldo and Francavilla tournaments.<\/p>\n
Having made it through the qualifying rounds at Roland Garros, Diaz Acosta beat China\u2019s Zhizhen Zhang (224) 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. He\u2019ll face United States player Learner Tien (18) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Another who secured his ticket in straight sets was Juan Manuel Cer\u00fandolo (56). Francisco\u2019s younger brother put in a standout performance, beating Britain\u2019s Jacob Fearnley (125) 6-2, 7-6(0), 7-6(7).\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s matched his best-ever performance at the French Open, although he\u2019ll face a tough challenge to better it, as he\u2019s set to face World No.1 Jannik Sinner from Italy on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Francisco Comesa\u00f1a (102) enjoyed a return to winning ways in Paris. The Mar del Plata player, who had just one main-draw win in his last nine events \u2014 stretching all the way to March \u2014\u00a0 beat U.S. player Ethan Quinn (50) 6-4, 7-6(8), 7-6(4).\u00a0<\/p>\n
He set up a duel of Argentine beach towns, as he\u2019ll face Villa Gesell-born Italian Luciano Darderi (17) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Burruchaga (68), son of 1986 Football World Cup-winner Jorge, got his first-ever Grand Slam win, but it wasn\u2019t in the best of circumstances. He benefited from the retirement of former top-ranked Argentine Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez (64).<\/p>\n
B\u00e1ez withdrew due to knee problems when the match was 2-6, 7-5, 6-2, 2-0 in favor of his rival.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning at a Grand Slam for the first time is nice, even though I had to play against an Argentine who wasn\u2019t feeling well,\u201d Burruchaga said after the match. \u201cI wish \u2018Seba\u2019 a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll face off against World No. 6 F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime from Canada on Thursday.<\/p>\n
They join Marco Trungelliti, Francisco Cer\u00fandolo, Camilo Ugo Carabelli, and Mariano Navone for a total of eight Argentine players in the second round.<\/p>\n
Sierra and Tirante, in round three Meanwhile, 21-year-old Solana Sierra had a great day and beat Italian Jasmine Paolini, ranked #13, by 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3.<\/p>\n
Also, Thiago Tirante beat Spanish player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1 y 6-3, obtaining his best result in a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n
They will continue to the next round, number three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Updated May 27, 3.50 p.m. Day three at Roland Garros brought another flurry of wins for Argentine tennis stars.\u00a0 Juan Manuel Cer\u00fandolo, Francisco Comesa\u00f1a, Facundo D\u00edaz Acosta, and Rom\u00e1n Burruchaga all moved to the second round on Tuesday, with Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez the only one out of the tournament. Buenos Aires Open 2024 champion Diaz Acosta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17701,8101,8102,15693,13211,67,5570],"tags":[17700,8095,8096,16846,13208,1369,5568],"class_list":["post-68517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facundo-diaz-acosta","category-francisco-comesana","category-juan-manuel-cerundolo","category-roland-garros","category-roman-burruchaga","category-sports","category-tennis","tag-facundo-diaz-acosta","tag-francisco-comesana","tag-juan-manuel-cerundolo","tag-roland-garros","tag-roman-burruchaga","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}