Diego Schwartzman will take on an almost impossible challenge at Roland Garros when he faces this Sunday for the Round of 16 against Novak Djokovicone of the favorites for the title and current champion of the French Grand Slam.
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El Peque, ranked 16th in the ATP world ranking, will be measured with the number one in the world, not before 8 (Argentina time) in the cancha Suzanne Lenglen.
the duel will be televised by ESPN and the Star + platform.
The match between the Argentine and the Serbian It will be the second of the day that will begin at 6 with the cross between the Italian Martina Trevisan (59) and the Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich (47).
Schwartzmann, 29, will try to win for the first time against a Nole that seems determined to defend the title and reach the figure of 21 Grand Slam wonwhich would allow him to match the record holder, Rafael Nadal, and in turn pass Roger Federer.
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El Peque stars in Paris their fourth access to the round of 16 at Roland Garros in the last five yearswith the high points of the 2020 semi-finals and the 2021 quarter-finals, both times beaten by Nadal.
Diego showed during the week a performance from low to highwith wins against Andrey Kuznetsov in four sets, and Jaume Munar in five sets, to bring out his best version against Grigor Dimitrov, whom he defeated in straight sets and having given up just six games, 6-3, 6-1 and 6-2.
Djokovicfor its part, he had an impeccable campaign with victories without giving up a set sobre Yoshihito Nishioka, Alex Molcan y Aljaz Bedene.
In the previous history the Serbian has everything to win, in fact he beat the Argentine the six times they were face to face: US Open 2014, Roland Garros 2017, Rome 2019 and 2020 in the final, Australia 2020 and the same year in the group stage of the Masters played in London.
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The winner of the match between Schwartzman and Djokovic will play in the quarterfinals against Rafael Nadal or Félix Auger Aliassime.
Rafa13 times champion at Roland Garros, will face the Canadian no earlier than 10 in the third turn of the Philippe Chatrier field programming.
Other attractive matches that he proposes on Sunday in Paris are the ones that will animate Carlos Alcaraz with Karen Khachanov y Alexander Zverev in front of the amazing Spaniard Bernabé Zapata Miralleswho came from the qualy.
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