Francisco Cerúndolo (No. 26 in the ATP world ranking) will make his debut in the Eastbourne ATP 250in what will be the week before the start of Wimbledon. The Argentine will face the American Marcos Giron (No. 53).
This match can be seen on ESPN on Star+ no earlier than 11:30 am (Argentina), 10:30 am (Chile), 9:30 am (Colombia/Peru) and 8:30 am (Mexico). It will be played on the Eastbourne center court.
The meeting will be the first between both players since they have never faced each other on the professional circuit. On the one hand, the oldest of the brothers cerundolo comes from losing in the first round of Queen’s against Carlos Alcaraz and will have the difficult task of retaining the points earned in Eastbourne 2023, where he was champion. And on the other, Giron he only won one match in Stuttgart (vs. Andy Murray) but, at the same time, he was only victorious in four games in the last three and a half months.
He Eastbourne ATP 250 will distribute a total of €740,160 in prize money and the four best seeds of the contest are: Taylor Fritz (will debut vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild or James McCabe), Tommy Paul (vs. Jacob Fearnley or Billy Harris), Alexander Bublik (vs. Fabian Marozsan or Lucky Loser) and Sebastian Baez (vs. Miomir Kecmanovic or Zhizhen Zhang).
