The Santa Fe Facundo Bagnis and the Argentine nationalized Italian Luciano Darderi They will define tomorrow the Cordoba Open of tennis, which is played on brick dust at the Mario Kempes stadium and awards prizes of 640 thousand dollars, after beating today in the semifinals Federico Coria and Sebastian Baezrespectively.
In the first round, in a semi-final duel between tennis players from Santa Fe, the man born in Armstrong (Bagnis), who advanced from the classification and started the tournament in position 207 in the ATP world ranking, beat Coria (93), a native of Rosario, with partials of 6-3 and 7-5, after one hour and 58 minutes of play.
In the series of crosses between them, including those produced in Challenger or Future type tournaments, there is now a 4-2 advantage for Bagnis.
With the victory, the man from Santa Fe broke an old record held by the father of Argentine tennis, Guillermo Vilas. At 33 years and 11 months, Bagnis became the oldest national player to play in an ATP final in the Open Era, after beating the “Poet” by three months.
Later Darderi, who yesterday had reached an ATP tournament semi-final for the first time in his career, took another step in his dream and eliminated Báez, second seed and top favorite since the elimination of Francisco Cerúndolo days ago.
The Italian’s victory was in three sets: 6-1, 3-6 and 6-3 to reach his first definition.
For Bagnis it will be the second, after losing in Santiago de Chile 2021 against local Cristian Garín.
Source: Ambito
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