Francisco Cerúndolo alternated good and bad during 2024

After enjoying the best season of his season, the Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo (30th) failed to confirm his high level to definitively settle in the Top 20 of the world ranking during 2024totaling 35 wins, 31 losses and one title.

The start of the calendar would be really complicated for the eldest of the brothers, who would say goodbye in their respective debuts in Hong Kong, Auckland, Córdoba and Buenos Aires, suffering to beat the local Dane Sweeny in five sets at the Australian Open although signing an important victory 7-5 and 6 -2 against the Kazakh Dmitry Popko in the Davis Cup Qualifiers.

Rio de Janeiro It would be the ideal springboard to regain confidence, because he would celebrate celebrations against his compatriot Francisco Comesaña, the Spaniard Albert Ramos Viñolas and the Serbian Dusan Lajovic, before failing in semi-finals against Sebastián Báez, who would later wake Mariano Navone from sleep in the definition to lift the most relevant trophy of his career.

The journey in lands Americans would not leave the versatile Buenos Aires man with the best taste in his mouth, who would give in third round of the Masters 1000, first against host Ben Shelton in Indian Wells and then against the Russian Karen Khachanov, who would decisively begin to mark the field for him, in Miamijust as he would succumb in his debut in it Houston ATP 250 versus the Italian Luciano Darderi.

Already on the old continent, the Muscovite would once again show the South American the way out, this time in Monte-Carlo and Rome, while he would reach the peak of performance in Madrid and Roland Garros by eliminating the German Alexander Zverev and the American Tommy Paul, on two occasions, and accessing until quarters and round of 16, saying goodbye in the hands of Taylor Fritz and Novak Djokovic, respectively.

The turns on grass would culminate in a blink of an eye for the former number 19 of the order, because it would not stand in Queen’s, Eastbournea title that he defended by becoming in 2023 only the third albiceleste to be proclaimed on the surface, and Wimbledon by losing to Carlos Alcaraz, Marcos Giron and Roman Safiullin, correlatively.

Kevin Konfederak’s pupil would find the necessary motivation on the eve of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, more precisely on the clay of the ATP 250 by Umagthe city where he would dispatch Matej Dodig, Lorenzo Sonego, Andrey Rublev and Lorenzo Musetti to raise his third drink in the Tourafter Bastad 2022 and the aforementioned Eastbourne.

A few days later, Cerúndolo would make a great start to his second experience in the nations event, defeating the Chilean Tomás Barrios Vera with category by 6-2 and 6-1, hitting the table against the favorite Ugo Humbert by winning 7-5 , 6-7 (5) and 7-5, and getting among the eight best in the French capital, where he would fall 6-3 and 6-4 against a specialist like the Norwegian Casper Ruud.

The last few months would serve as a perfect replica of his irregular 2024as a result of the fact that he would suffer Khachanov’s lethality again, in Cincinnati and BeijingI wouldn’t stand in Shanghai and Baselhe would be excited Almaty by getting a ticket to the semifinals and would become a key piece in the national team in Davis Cupsecuring three vital points against Great Britain, Finland and Italy.

In this way, Cerúndolo lowers the blinds of a season with little pleasure, remembering that his main objective had been to get into the Top 10, although surely the stoppage will help him shuffle, give it again and return recharged to compete at the highest level during 2025.