2024-03-04 01:30:44
Sebastián Báez won the Chile Open title, after beating the local team, Alejandro Tabilo, and confirmed his great sporting moment. Last week won the ATP in Rio de Janeiro.
Despite of surprising 6-3 loss in the first set, the Argentine singles player recovered in the second set by imposing himself with authority and take the set with a resounding 6-0 in their favor. Thus, andIn the third he imposed conditions again to close the 6-4 victory.
👀🎾🇨🇱 This is how it ended #ChileOpen2024
Sebastián Báez won the ATP 250 in Santiago for the first time, after a great comeback against Alejandro Tabilo.
Congratulations to the new monarch of the most important tennis tournament in our country. pic.twitter.com/TlBvoUNBcp
— TNT Sports Chile (@TNTSportsCL) March 4, 2024
To reach the glory of the other side of the Andes Mountains, The Argentine defeated the Spanish Pedro Martínez (101st) 6-4 and 6-2 and became the main favorite to win the crown by arriving as the second seed in the competition, although in front of it was a complex Chilean rival that occupies 51st place in the international ranking.
yourself, number 21 in the ATP ranking, displaced the owner of the house Nicolás Jarry (22nd)champion of the previous edition, who fell on Friday against Frenchman Corentin Mouteta rival much lower in the world ranking (140th) and who said goodbye to Tabilo.
The Chilean, who will climb the ATP ranking With the results already obtained, it also had a great prominence for the South American tourwhere he has reached the semifinals at the ATP in Buenos Aires and Córdoba.
The Buenos Aires native He began his career in the Santiago ATP in the round of 16, where he beat the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas in three sets, against whom he came back after losing the first set with a score of 4-6, 6-4 and 6-2, while On Friday he defeated the also Spanish Jaume Munarwhom he won in two sets 6-4 and 6-4, but also with a comeback in the second when he was losing 4-1.
A dream week for Sebastián Báez
He 23-year-old Argentine tennis player is going through his best weeks on the circuit after having conquered his first ATP 500 last weekend after beating his compatriot Mariano Navone in the final and to reach the semifinals of the ATP 250 in Córdoba, and to the quarterfinals of the Argentina Open.
The young man who in 2018 He was number 1 in the world at the junior level already accumulates in his professional career sum five titles since he made the leap to professionalism. won in 2022 in Estoril and last year he added three more crowns between Winston-Salem, Kitzbuhel and Córdoba, beyond the recent success in Brazil. He also played other two finals without luck, both in 2022 in Santiago de Chile and Bastad.
The coronation in Brazil allowed Báez surpass the national line of Diego Schwartzman, who has four ATP crowns in his career. Seba now appears alone with his five singles titles still very far from select group that leads the 62 celebrations by Guillermo Vilaslas 25 of José Luis Clerclas 22 by Juan Martin del Potrolas 12 of Martin Jaitelas 11 by David Nalbandian and the 9 that Guillermo Pérez Roldán imitated, Pico Monaco y Guillermo Coria. The Top Ten is completed by Gastón Gaudio (8) and Guillermo Cañas (7).
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