Comesaña in Cincinnati: he broke down, suffered a rain delay and won after three hours :: Olé

Almost all Argentine tennis players quickly were left out of Masters 1000 Cincinnati. However, a warrior stood up, and on Tuesday he won another battle. It’s about Francisco Comesaña (71 °)who surpassed the premises Reilly Opelka (73 °) after Decompose, suffer a delay for rain and lift three match points against him. And now who stops?

At this cross of third round, the Marplatense knew that he would face a fearsome rival: Opelka, a giant of 2.11 meters, came to erase one of the protagonists of the tournamentthe Australian Alex de Miñaur (8th). Against all forecast, The shark gave himself the pleasure of stopping him and took it out 6-7 (4), 6-4 and 7-5.

In the first setComesaña He suffered the best virtue of his rival, who packed 15 ACES. In spite of that, he remained in a party through a solid and little yerros defense (nine united errors, compared to the 20 of Opelka), and reached the Tie-Break after almost an hour. In that instance, The American beat him by littleso he had to continue paddling.

Already in the second, with the increase in temperature, The Marplatense frightened the entire stadium. After achieving a break and putting 4-3 above, it was He stopped and went to his chair. Decomposed, he was about to vomit.

Despite this, The shark returned to the court and, as if nothing had happened, closed the partial in his favor to tie the game. Thus, the tennis players went to the definition after almost two hours of play and with an incessant heat.

In the latter, The game stopped a long time because of the rain When the Argentine took with a 5-4 against. He didn’t feel bad: when he returned to the court, He didn’t give a game, he raised three match points and took the match after 2h56m.

Opelka was just one of the very hard rivals to which Commission eliminated in Cincinnati: I had already surpassed Spanish Jaume Munar (48 °), By double 6-4, and the Italian Luciano Darderi (34 °)which retired when it fell 6-4 and 3-1. However, in the round of 16 he will face the most difficult opponent that touched him so far …

It’s about Russian Andrey Rublev (11 °)with which he will play on Wednesday, with time to confirm. It will be his second confrontation after the very reminding triumph of the shark in Wimbledon 2024, A 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 and 7-6 (5) in the first round of the contest. Whatever happens, the Argentine tennis player already has reasons to celebrate: he made sure to climb to the 54th Post of the ATP ranking, its best historical position.

A day before what happened to Comesaña, A racket had already suffered heat in Cincinnati: Arthur Rinderknech (70 °)that there was a set down and 2-2 when collapsed during a rival serveafter two intense game hours under temperatures above 30 ° C. The French could get up and continued a little longer with the game, but Shortly after the locker room retired.