Facundo Díaz Acosta, No. 87 in the ATP ranking, beat the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (No. 21) in the final of the Argentina Open by 6-3 and 6-4. He will rise to 59th place.
Facundo Díaz Acosta stomped on the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, where he won his first ATP title: the Argentina Open. In the Buenos Aires tournament, the Buenos Aires native, 23 years old and invited with a wild card (his ranking -No. 87- did not allow him to enter the main draw), defeated the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (21 °) in the final by 6- 3 and 6-4.
In the same place where his name was first heard, at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, when he won the silver medal in singles and the gold medal in doubles, in a pair with Sebastian Baez, Facundo Díaz Acosta He played the best tennis of his life to win his first title in the Argentina Open.
After reaching the quarterfinals in the Cordoba Open last week, now he got the Argentina Open without giving up sets before Nicholas Jarry, who had just given the blow in the semifinals against the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, No. 2 in the world. With the presence of Gabriela Sabatini on the BALTC platform, Facundo Díaz Acosta became the sixth Argentine to win the ATP in Buenos Aires, after Guillermo Coria (2004), Gastón Gaudio (2005), Juan Mónaco (2007), David Nalbandian (2008) and Diego Schwartzman (2021).
Both players came out with very clear strategies. Facundo Díaz Acostawho became champion without giving up a set throughout the entire Argentina Open, he bet on moving his rival so that he does not hit hard and hurt every time he has the opportunity. One of the resources that he used the most and best was the drop shot.
Facundo Díaz Acosta was relentless
Nicholas Jarry, for his part, always sought to take the initiative thanks to the power of his blows, but ended up falling into despair against a rival who made almost no mistakes. At the beginning of the second quarter, Facundo Díaz Acosta he finished mentally burying his rival with a break in the first game where he made impressive winning returns to Nicholas Jarrywho in desperation made serve and net to try to surprise but without achieving positive results.
On his way to the final, Facundo Díaz Acosta He demonstrated a superlative level and eliminated all his rivals without giving up sets: his first victim was the German Daniel Altmaier, then the local Francisco Cerúndolo, the Serbian Dusan Lajovic followed and yesterday it was the turn of his compatriot Federico Coria.
For Nicholas Jarry, the journey had been much more difficult. In his debut in the round of 16 he raised a match point to beat the Swiss Stan Wawrinka in the tie-break of the third set, then he benefited from the abandonment of the local Tomás Etcheverry when they were tied sets and yesterday he gave the blow of the week to the eliminate world number 2 and first seed in the tournament, Carlos Alcaraz.
Source: Ambito
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