The American Aleksandar KovacevicNo. 76 of the world ranking, gave the surprise of the Los Cabos Tennis Open by defeating in the semifinal 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to Russian Andrey Rublevfirst favorite.
In a duel concluded at dawn this Saturday, Kovacevic He went from more to more. After losing the first set, his performance improved and eliminated the tenth player of the Tour.
Rublev was better in the first set, in which He won 84 percent of the points with the first service And the Kovacevic serve broke in the first and ninth games to take advantage.
In the second, the American raised the solidity of his serve and broke the service in the third and seventh games, but did not confirm the second break and the Russian approached 5-3. Calm Kovecevic was accurate with the serve and forced a third set.
The third partial was at odds until in the ninth game, Kovacevic broke and, after confirming, took the victory with a good performance with his setback to one hand before a frustrated rublev Your 39 united errors.
Kovacevic will play the title this Saturday with the Canadian Denis Shapovalovwho defeated Australian 6-2, 6-2 Adam Walton.
Shapovalov, player 33 of the world, maintained the good tennis that he has shown in the week and left without response to his rival, racket 97 of the world.
In the first set a break in the fifth and seventh game; In the second manga, he broke the serve of his opponent in the third and the fifth and thus agreed to the final in which he will look for his fourth title on the Tour.
Shapovalov put 24 winning shotsfor eight of his rival; He won 76 percent of the points with his first service and developed his best tennis in crucial moments.
The Los Cabos Open, Tournament ATP 250 endowed with a $ 920,280 awards bag, it has served the contestants to adapt to the quick surface and scheduleprior to the tour prior to the US Openwith the Master 1,000 of Toronto y Cincinnatibefore the last 'Grand Slam' of the season.
