Isner Surprised by Lajovic in ATP Buenos Aires

The American John Isner, seeded number four and number 12 in the world, was the third surprise of the ATP 250 Buenos Aires (Dolgopolov Fognini and two other seeded, had been previously deleted). He lost to the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (number 79 of the ATP rankings) by two sets to one, 7-6 (10) / 4-6 / 7-6 (6), at 2:20 a.m., on Wednesday (10 ).As the partial show, the game was played with the Serbian saving a break point at 4-4 in the third set and winning two tie breaks against one of the best pullers in the world. This was the first victory Lajovic against top 20 players, it will now face the Austrian Dominic Thiem fifth best positioned of the tournament, which exceeded the Portuguese qualifier Gastao Elias (142) by 3-6 / 7-6 (7) / 6 -3 game complicated for the second round, also on Wednesday. Things were tough for the Austrian who, besides getting one set down on the scoreboard, came to save a match point in the second.

Who also had problems was the experienced Spaniard Nicolas Almagro (72). He went on to win his match against Argentine Federico Delbonis (45) by two sets to one (6-3 / 4-6 / 6-4), however, he came to stay behind on the scoreboard losing 4-1 in the third set. The Spaniard will now face in the quarterfinals of the third competition seeded, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who, unlike his teammates in the day, defeated with relative ease the Argentine Leonardo Mayer (37) by two sets zero, partial 6-1 / 6-2 in just 1 hour and controlling your game.On Thursday, David Ferrer, second seeded, debut against fellow Argentine wild card Renzo Olivo (151) and Rafael Nadal, better position in the tournament, will again face Argentine Juan Monaco (55), reissuing the end of the year past, to close the second round of the competition.

Source: ATP Buenos Aires