The Argentina Open reaches its definition stage. This Saturday semi-final also opens with a duel one hundred per Argentine story, in which Facundo Díaz Acosta struck the first blow. Because the Buenos Aires native, 87th in the world, took the first set by a good margin against Federico Coriaunder the strong sun of a day of intense heat at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis.
In an almost full stadium (tickets for Saturday were sold out hours before the start of the day), Coria was more solid at the start. Well planted in the back of the court, he took the advantage. He broke in the first game and then went away 2-0. But it was all he could do in the game.
Because Díaz Acosta took a while to settle in on the court, but when he did he started playing better. More comfortable with his return and more refined with his shots (he put several balls in the lines, which were unreachable for the man from Rosario), he began to impose his game. And he won six games in a row (with three breaks) to take the set.
Díaz Acosta, guest of the organization, defeated the Serbian 6-4 and 6-3 in the previous instance Dusan Lajovic. The man from Buenos Aires, champion last year in the Santiago Pan American Games, is on a good streak. Last week, he reached the quarterfinals of an ATP for the first time when he reached that stage in Córdoba (he lost with Sebastian Baez) and extended his great moment in the BALTC, where he played his first semis.
Meanwhile, Coria, who entered the draw thanks to a special exemption (because he comes from playing semis in Córdoba), beat Báez, fifth seed, in the quarterfinals in another match between Argentines, 6-1 and 6-4. The man from Rosario, who has already secured his return to the top 100 (he will rise to at least 85th place), is looking to get into his third final, after those of Bastad 2021 y Córdoba 2023.
Later, it will be the turn of the current champion and top favorite, the Spanish Carlos Alcarazwho will face the Chilean Nicholas Jarrywho at the end of Friday benefited from the abandonment due to injury of the player from La Plata Tomás Martín Etcheverry.
Alcaraz had to work harder than expected to win his debut against Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who had emerged from qualifying but gave him a fight (it was 6-2 and 7-5). And he needed a tie break to beat another rival from the qualifying phase, the Italian Andrea Vavassoriin the quarterfinals (7-6 (7-1) and 6-1).
The Spaniard, who is playing his first tournament on clay since Roland Garros 2023, still did not show his best version in the contest. At times, in their two previous meetings, more erratic than usual.
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