In just over two hours of play, Monfils defeated the South American, who bid farewell to the first Grand Slam of the season after two very demanding matches in which they added 10 hours of action between them.
Monfils got 14 points directly against four of the Andean and made seven breaks in 11 opportunities for three of the defeated four times.
In addition, he won 72 percent of the units with the first service, higher than the 59 of the Chilean, who also surpassed the goals achieved with the second serve (61 compared to 46 percent).
In the round of 16, Monfils will face Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, who beat Italian Lorenzo Sonego in the third instance 6-4, 6-7 (8/10), 6-2, 7-5.
The German Alexander Zverev, third seeded, and the Spanish Rafael Nadal, sixth, passed this Friday to the fourth phase.
Zverev led Moldovan Radu Albot 6-3, 6-4, 6-4, and Nadal, Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
The Iberian, who is seeking his 21st Grand Slam title in the absence of his great rivals, the Swiss Roger Federer and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, showed a great performance in the first two sets, but gave up in the third to lose his first set in the fair
In other matches, the Italian Matteo Berrettini, seeded seventh, defeated the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz 6-2, 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 2-6 and 7-6 (10/5), and the Italian Jannik Sinner, favorite number 11, beat American Steve Johnson with partials of 6-2, 6-4 and 6-3.
For its part, in the women’s competition, the current champion, the Japanese Naomi Osaka, fell in the third round against the American Amanda Anisimova with partials of 6-4, 3-6 and 6-7 (5/10) and the number one of the world, the Australian Ashleigh Barty, eliminated the Italian Camila Giorgi (6-2 and 6-3).
Three of the candidates for the title, the Czech Barbora Krejcikova, fourth seed, the Greek María Sakkari, fifth, and the Spanish Paula Badosa, eighth, also agreed to the fourth phase.
Krejcikova defeated Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, Sakkari defeated Russian Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-1, and Badosa defeated Ukrainian Marta Kostiuk 6-2, 5- 7 and 6-4.
However, the monarch of the US Open 2021, the British Emma Raducanu, fell to the Montenegrin Danka Kovinic 4-6, 6-4, 3-6.
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