Fran Cerúndolo suffered but scored a great success at the Paris Masters 1000 and will have the reward of facing Sinner

The prowess of Argentine tennis once again did its homework. For the second round of Paris Masters 1000, Francisco Cerúndolo (21st in the ATP ranking) won a great victory against Miomir Kecmanovic (53rd) by 7-5, 1-6 and 7-6 (4) to get into the round of 16 of the competition.

A meeting with many ups and downs on both sides. Although at the beginning there was clear parity between the two with that 7-5, this was not the case in the two adjacent sets, where each showed what they are made of. While in the second set the Serbian showed that the match could be in his hands, in the decisive set the Argentine brought out his forehand with more than 20 winning blows in the match, thus remaining in the round.

However, he did not have it easy at all in this final round, since he went from having match point at 5-3, to having to fight until the Tie-Break to win.

In this way, the Buenos Aires tennis player He already achieved his best season as far as Masters 1000 is concerned, adding for now a semi-final in Madridtwo quarterfinals in Indian Wells and Miamithree round of 16 in Rome, Canada and now, in Paris. With these figures, He already has 18 games won in this type of tournament, only Guillermo Coria managed to surpass that number of victories in 2003 and 2004.

With a record of 38-23 so far this season but without winning titles yet, Cerúndolo has already ensured that he will be the best Albiceleste tennis player in 2025, winning important victories against Alexander Zverev on two occasions, Holger Rune, Casper Ruud, Álex de Minaurto mention a few.

The next match that the best Argentine racket will have to face will be nothing more and nothing less than Jannik Sinner. The meeting can be seen on the Disney+ Plan Premium screen no earlier than 3:00 PM (Argentina/Chile).

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