{"id":59589,"date":"2021-02-12T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=59589"},"modified":"2021-02-12T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:30:13","slug":"diego-schwartzman-loses-in-third-round-upset-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/diego-schwartzman-loses-in-third-round-upset-at-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Schwartzman loses in third round upset at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Argentine Jewish tennis star Diego Schwartzman lost in a surprising upset to Russian Aslan Karatsev in the third round of the Australian Open, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59590\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59590\" class=\"wp-image-59590 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59590\" class=\"wp-image-59590 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-12-21-sad-diego-1536x853-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-59590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diego Schwartzman reacts in his Australian Open match against Aslan Karatsev during day five of the tournament in Melbourne, Feb. 12, 2021. (Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At last year\u2019s Australian Open, Schwartzman lost in the fourth round to eventual winner Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartzman, who entered the top 10 for the first time in his career this past fall and played in last year\u2019s ATP Finals, was seeded 8 at the grand slam tournament. He was expected to win over Karatsev, a 27-year-old qualifier who was playing his first Grand Slam main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartzman was 9-0 against qualifiers in Grand Slam matches until the match against Karatsev, and Karatsev, ranked 114, becomes only the fifth qualifier in 21 years to make it to a Grand Slam fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was playing amazing tennis,\u201d Schwartzman said after the match. \u201cI didn\u2019t serve well [and] maybe that was one of the keys in the match, because he was really comfortable [hitting] returns\u2026 He was doing everything really well, moving well, hitting well, and I was not really comfortable in the match. I think he deserved to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Schwartzman\u2019s last Grand Slam appearance, he was a semifinalist in the French Open, where he became the shortest man to reach a Grand Slam semis since Jewish tennis player Harold Solomon in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartzman, who doesn\u2019t shy away from expressing his Jewish identity, most recently helped launch a professional esports team headquartered at Argentina\u2019s largest Jewish sports center.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Diego%20Schwartzman%20loses%20in%20third%20round%20upset%20at%20Australian%20Open\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[11195,11194,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59591,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589\/revisions\/59591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}