It couldn’t be for Tomás Etcheverry. However, the tennis player from La Plata had reached his first ATP 250 final Hehe consecration went to Nicolás Jarry, number one in Chile, who beat him 6(5)-7, 7-6(5) and 6-2 in Santiago, to the delight of those present, thanks to the victory of a local.
Very balanced match in the first two sets. In the initial none of the players lost their serve, so they went to the tiebreaker. The match remained balanced and was only defined with a 7/5 in favor of the Argentine after an hour and three minutes of play.
In the second point of the second set, Jarry managed to break Etcheverry’s serve thanks to a double fault by the Argentine. However, on the seventh point Etcheverry managed to break the Chilean’s serve, again due to a double fault by Jarry.
From there they held parity again and had to settle in a new tie-break which this time Jarry took with a 7/5, after an hour and eight minutes.
Jarry managed to break Etcheverry’s serve early in the third set and did it again in the fifth point. The Argentine was already showing signs of tiredness, while the Chilean was gaining confidence. Which allowed him to win the third and final set 6-2, in 35 minutes, with the match and the title.
The star player made the difference in the third set against an Etcheverry (23 years old) who didn’t show enough variation. The Argentine is in 76th place in the ATP rankings, while the winner is in 87th place, although after this victory he will be ranked in 52nd place.
Three times before they had met and Etcheverry had won them all.
On the way to the title, Nicolás Jarry previously had to defeat the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (77), the Argentine Diego Schwartzman (37), the German Yannick Hanfmann (153) and the Spaniard Jaume Munar (66). Each of those matches extended to three sets.
In addition to earning 250 ranking points, Jarry won a prize of $97,760. In this way, this Monday the Chilean will appear in 52nd place in the ATP
Source: Clarin
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