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Long London Masters 2020: a unique tournament with a double challenge for Schwartzman and Zeballos

2020-11-14T20:43:57.229Z


Argentines are going to experience special days in a very special event where the best of the season will be measured hand in hand. Not only do you have to play at a high level: it will also be decisive to overcome the emotion.


Argentines are going to experience special days in a very special event where the best of the season will be measured hand in hand.

Not only do you have to play at a high level: it will also be decisive to overcome the emotion.

Javier Frana

11/14/2020 5:25 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 11/14/2020 5:25 PM

To say that the Masters is a tournament for the few perhaps sounds obvious: it is known that only the eight best singles players and the eight best couples of the season play.

But it is also a great truth that exceeds the number of participants and is understood by what it means for these players to be in such a special contest, in such a select group.

Beyond the format, of the two groups of four in which perhaps a defeat in the first round can condition your continuity but often does not leave you eliminated,

the Masters has other peculiarities

.

Like never finding a poster that indicates where the "changing rooms" are, but rather his own billboard on a door behind which is the player's place, his privacy, where he will prepare the games and spend hours analyzing the conditions, what happened , what needs to be improved and what needs to be sustained.

Diego Schwartzman will play the ATP finals for the first time.

Photo: EFE

Within this very small group, Argentina has the privilege and honor of having not one, but two tennis players: one is Diego Schwartzman and the other is Horacio Zeballos, the latter in doubles.

The

Peque

has been really extraordinary.

Some of us remember that photo at Arthur Ashe Stadium, after his defeat in the first round against Cameron Norrie in two sets to zero, staring blankly, surely containing bitterness and anger, wondering - why does one do it in those moments - how sustain motivation.

And how everything changed after Rome.

Because from there for Diego it has been another walk, another rhythm, which has allowed him to have this enormous goal and this great dream.

And - I said - the place he will occupy is so special that this challenge of going to compete and not feeling satisfied with the mere fact of having achieved something so unique and reserved for so few will not be less for him.

The same goes for Horacio Zeballos, who will be playing doubles with Marcel Granollers.

After those days as a singles player, when he was dedicated to doubles, starting to win important titles was clearly his mission and once he did, the Masters logically became a new goal.

Now he reached it.

Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos come from winning the Masters 1000 in Rome.

Photo: EFE

Surely, in his case and due to his location and that of his partner (they are third and eighth in the world ranking, respectively) he will go with big goals, unlike Schwartzman.

Beyond the Argentines, on the other hand this tournament will also be for Novak Djokovic the possibility of leading, marking validity and winning his sixth title.

For Rafael Nadal, meanwhile, it will be an opportunity to win it for the first time.

The action will begin this Sunday with two excellent matches.

From 11 o'clock, Thiem will try out Tsitsipas.

And starting at 17 it will be Nadal's turn against Rublev.

On Monday it will be the turn of Schwartzman, who will have to face Nole.

It will be a Masters, in short, full of spices.

Special and unique, true to its style.

Special for Clarín.

MFV

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Source: clarin

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