The Chilean wanted to avenge Friday’s defeat. With a crushing score of 6-1 and 6-2 over the duo Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas, the lead of the Rest of the World team over the European team has lengthened.
Alejandro Tabilo (22nd ATP) took his revenge in The Wash Cup . After his fall against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (10th), the Chilean had the responsibility of increasing the 6-4 advantage that the Rest of the World team held over the European team, mainly after Taylor Fritz’s victory against Alexander Zverev (6-4 and 7-5). For this, Jano teamed up with American Ben Shelton (17th) to beat the pair of Casper Ruud (9th) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (12th) by a wide score of 6-1 and 6-2.
Tabilo’s Redemption
At first, the duo of the national and American tennis player had a devastating start. Leaving aside all the mistakes made on Friday, Tabilo used his forehand to advance on serve, then immediately broke in the second game with a backhand that the Greek couldn’t contain. .
The dominant dynamic will be the tone of subsequent actions. After two break points and a few exchanges of shots at the net, they tipped the balance again to put a solid 4-0. . In the same way, The momentum of the North American and the composure of the Creole athlete would be the key to sealing a crushing 6-1 in the first set. .
The duo from the Old Continent could not find their place at the Uber Arena in Berlin. With many doubts at the start, Neither the Nordic nor the Athenian were able to chain the shots that hit the central zone of the field . Even because of the indecision between the two, Tsitsipas hit his knee with a racket while trying to respond to a point. In this sense, Jano felt he had to focus his launches on this sector and took advantage of the failures to start again from the start and show that he was more than willing to not repeat the same failures of Friday. .
This is how it all went until the sixth game of the second set. With a score of 3-2 in favor of the Tabilo-Shelton duo, the Europeans came into the match and began to respond to the attacks with their usual quality, being on the verge of breaking twice. However, After a series of multiple changes of advantage, errors at the net and parallel shots, the national racket was able to hold the serve and ensured the score of 4-2. All this under the benevolent gaze of Francis Tiafoe and Fritz, who encouraged them, euphorically, from the bench. .
The joy was felt in the team led by John McEnroe even more so when they went bankrupt again and left everything ready to end it in the eighth game. On the other hand, those led by Bjorn Borg They were discouraged when they saw that victory was inevitably slipping away from them.
In this way, the world representative team extended its lead to a resounding 8-4 and left him great options to win Sunday’s crown. In case of victory according to said definition (with matches to be determined by each of the captains), the Chilean tennis player will be able to obtain a sum close to 250,000 dollars, which is an approximate amount of 231 million dollars in national currency..
Source: Latercera
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