NewzArgentine tennis player Tomás Martín Etcheverry defeated his compatriot Mariano Navone in the third round of the US Open on Friday, September 4. Etcheverry, ranked 32nd in the world, won in straight sets with a score of 6-4, 6-4, and 6-3 after a match lasting 2 hours and 26 minutes.
Mariano Navone entered the third-round match following a notable previous victory over Serbian player Novak Djokovic, which had established him as the tournament's giant-killer. Despite that momentum, Navone, ranked 49th globally, was successfully halted by his fellow countryman Etcheverry in the straight-sets encounter.
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