2024-02-18 01:08:56
The final of the Argentina Open this Sunday will have two protagonists that were not easy to anticipate: the Argentine Facundo Díaz Acosta and the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (3rd seed). For Díaz Acosta, who has never won an ATP tournament, the week is a dream, because he has not yet given up a set, and he was overcoming each requirement step by step, until This Saturday cut the great level that Federico Coria had been showing by 6-2 and 6-3, a score that makes clear his clear superiority.
And the other big surprise came from the powerful Chilean Nicolás Jarry, not so much because of the result, because his level is outstanding and he was considered in a position to complicate the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, especially because the world number 2 had been showing himself far from his best version. But what caught the attention was the ease with which Jarry ended up defeating him. With enormous effort, the Spanish tennis player managed to reach the tie-break of the initial set, but Jarry resolved it decisively (7-2). And in the second set, he suffered almost no surprises, to close it with a sober 6-3.
In the first set, both players showed very clear dominance with their serves, without giving themselves any break opportunities. Alcaraz only lost three points with his serve, while Jarry had a harder time maintaining, but this did not mean that he went through complicated situations. All the problems that Alcaraz had during the set with his serve came in the tie-break, where his first serves faltered and consequently the Chilean went ahead to 7-2 already indicated.
It seemed at the beginning of the second set that Alcaraz would rise, in fact he started by breaking, but the lungo Jarry recovered the serve in the next game, and from there he established an increasingly clear dominance, against an Alcaraz that had to make supreme efforts to maintain his serving turns. The break for the Chilean finally came in the eighth game, to go up 5-3 and serve for the match.
For Jarry, the victory is the most important of his career, He had had to sweat a lot to get into the semis, but on his way in Buenos Aires he also beat the Swiss Stan Wawrinka and in the quarterfinals he lost a set to Tomás Etcheverry, who later abandoned after suffering a tear. Now he will face Facu Díaz Acosta, who after his excellent performance in Córdoba (he reached the quarterfinals) started in Buenos Aires with the hope of “having another good tournament, and is on the verge of his first ATP title.
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