The national tennis player was unable to face Arthur Rinderknech and lost 6-3 and 7-6 in the final of the Polish tournament. Despite everything, his performance made him climb to 126th place in the ATP rankings.
The second coronation of Tomás Barrios will have to continue to wait. The national tennis player lost 6-3 and 7-6 (2) to Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (60th) in the Poznan Challenger final. Despite a two-hour-and-25-minute battle, he was unable to extend the definition in the third set and was once again on the verge of winning a title.
Unlike Saturday, when everything was in favor of Chillanejo, against the first seed of the tournament, he had an exhausting battle. A reflection of this is that the initial run alone lasted one hour and twelve minutes. In the semi-finals, for example, the whole duel lasted four minutes longer than that.
Barrios managed to break Rinderknech twice in the first set. However, the Frenchman did the same three times. Indeed, the native of Gassin ensured the round in the ninth game, where the national had the service. The start of the final surprised everyone present, since in the top five Games neither won with the serve in their favor.
In the second half, Barrios jumped in determined to even the action, but the Frenchman had no surprises. None gave his arm to be twisted. In this way, they had to define the actions in the tiebreaker. In this part of the duel, the difference in ranking was obvious. Rinderknech prevailed 7-2 to win the title in Poznan.
The title is still waiting
For Barrios, this is the second lost final of the year. In May, he fell to the Portuguese Joao Domingues in Bahia. It is the fourth he has lost in his career, the other two were in 2021, against Jesper De Jong in Almaty, and against Sebastián Báez in Santiago.
To arrive at the definition in Poland, Barrios beat Italian Andrea Arnaboldi (220th) 6-2, 2-6, 6-3; the German Elmar Ejupovic (418th) 6-2 and 7-5; Zizou Bergs (199th), Belgian, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6; and Argentinian Genaro Olivieri (248th) by 6-4 and 6-1.
For its part, the story of the winner is diametrically opposed in the final. He played in five of them, including four wins and one loss. This is the first he gets on clay. Before facing Barrios in the final, he left behind Lorenzo Giustino (228th), Georgii Kravchenko (439th), Daniel Dutra da Silva (238th) and Dimitar Kuzmanov (179th), so the Chilean was his rival with the highest ATP ranking .
In the same vein, beyond the defeat this Sunday, the accounts are positive for Marcelo Tomás Barrios, as he climbs to 126th place in the rankings, approaches the top 100 for the first time in his career.
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Source: Latercera
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