Successful debut for Diego Schwartzman at the Miami Masters 1000

On the day of Juan Martín Del Potro's debut at the Miami Masters 1000, the first tournament after winning Indian Wells, Diego Schwartzman achieved a successful debut. The Peque ended the threat of Chilean Nicolás Jarry by defeating him in straight sets. The match is broadcasted by ESPN.

Del Potro to face Robin Haase

The Tandil native, the number one in South American tennis, will face Dutchman Robin Haase. Del Potro, sixth in the ATP world ranking, will play starting at 9 pm against Haase (44), who defeated Japanese Yuichi Sugita (43) in the opening round by 6-4, 3-6, and 6-1.

Del Potro's successful history against Haase

The Tandil native has defeated the Dutchman in all four occasions they have faced each other, in Wimbledon 2012, Basel 2016, and last year in Miami and Paris.

Schwartzman's huge triumph against Jarry

Schwartzman, on the other hand, champion of this year's ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro and with the best ranking of his career (16), achieved a huge victory against the emerging Chilean Nicolás Jarry (66), who has just defeated Englishman Cameron Norrie (105) in the opening round by 7-6 (3) and 6-2.

A solid performance by Schwartzman

The beginning of the set was very favorable for Peque, who broke his rival's serve in the first game and then confirmed it. In the next game, the Argentine had two more break chances that Jarry was able to save to not fall too far behind on the scoreboard.

The Chilean managed to recover and, in a game with some complications for Schwartzman, had to wait until his fourth break opportunity to level the set at 4-4. However, the Argentine did not give him any hope: he regained the break, confirmed it, and broke it again to win the first set 6-3.

Continued dominance by Schwartzman

After that set, Peque showed his solidity and focus by breaking his opponent's serve two more times - and reaching five in the match - to win the set 6-1 and end the Chilean threat.

Positive outlook for the Davis Cup match

A good omen for the Davis Cup duel between Argentina and Chile in the American Zone 1 in San Juan on April 6th and 7th. Although for Schwartzman that clash will be "completely different" due to the surface, competition, atmosphere, and because, he warned, Jarry is in good form and one cannot judge him based on a not-so-good match like the one the Chilean tennis player had this Friday.

"His strongest weapon, the serve and hitting well, did not work," he assured the press after the match. "One of his strengths is the serve and one of mine is the return, and two completely different things collide and today I won much more than him. Despite not serving well, I played much more relaxed because I complicated him a lot in every game," he explained.

Schwartzman's thoughts on his next opponent

About his next opponent, who will come from the duel between Canadian Milos Raonic, the 20th seed, and Swede Mikael Ymer, Schwartzman said that Raonic is "clearly the favorite" and that his opponent, at just 19 years old, "plays tennis very well, but these are his first major tournaments."

He added that although the Canadian is in the recovery phase from physical discomfort, he was a semifinalist at Indian Wells last week and is "becoming a little more dangerous," so the Argentine hopes he doesn't win easily so as not to further boost his confidence.