His name is Facundo Díaz Acosta, he is from Buenos Aires, he is 23 years old and he is 87th in the world. But, also, since this Sunday he is the second guest to win the Argentina Open, after the great David Ferrer, who did so with the wild card that the organization granted him in 2014. When his rival in the final, Nicolás Jarry, sent The ball was a little long along the baseline with his right foot (it was his sixth match ball in the same game), Facu put his hands on his head, dropping the cap he was wearing. He had just beaten Carlos Alcaraz’s executioner 6-3, 6-4 in Saturday’s semifinals. With his ninth win on the tour, he won his first ATP title. Not to believe it.
Good things had always happened to him in the home tournament. There he has obtained six of those eight wins; he made his debut in 2020, also with an invitation; He won his first match in 2023, and has achieved the biggest victory of his career, against the Chilean, number 21 in the ranking. He joins Rafa Nadal, champion in 2015, as the only left-handed champions in Buenos Aires, and now comes out in 69th place in the rankings, the best he has ever held. Surely, if he continues like this, in 2024 he will enter the picture directly. Because he doesn’t do anything wrong, he has a good forehand, with a lot of revolutions, he misses little, he is physically good and his tennis is, in general terms, ideal for clay.
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“I don’t know what to say. “I am very happy, I have worked hard to achieve this with my team and my family,” said the sixth local winner of the Buenos Aires event, after Guillermo Coria (2004), Gastón Gaudio (2005), Juan Mónaco (2007), David Nalbandián (2008 ) and Diego Schwartzman (2021). This week, before triumphing against Jarry, he defeated Daniel Altmaier, Francisco Cerúndolo (22nd), Dusan Lajovic and Federico Coria. He was, of course, the public’s favorite, something that worried the Chilean a little, from whom something more was expected in the final, given how warm the Argentine fans usually are, very correct, on the other hand. His three victories in the confrontations that both had had in Challengers had no weight on this occasion.
Meditation and relaxation
In the presence of the legendary Gabriela Sabatini, he collected his trophy. “I have been dreaming of this moment for a long time, with my family banking from far back. That it is here in Argentina is something tremendous. Very happy to have been able to succeed,” said Facundo, who turned to meditation to improve when things were not going so well for him. He also decided not to think so much about tennis and enjoy life more, as revealed in a report on the official ATP website. Now, “the click” that he talks about in that article has borne fruit.
2024-02-18 21:25:44
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