Tomás Etcheverry advanced this Sunday to the final of the ATP 250 in Houston after beating the German
Yannick Hanfmann
6-3 and 6-4
, emerged from the classification.
In this way, starting at 9:00 p.m., the Argentine will seek the title on the Texan brick dust when he faces the local Frances Tiafoe, the top seed, who left the Dutchman Gijs Brouwer on the road.
Etcheverry, born in La Plata and ranked 73rd in the ATP world ranking, had reached the semifinal on Saturday after winning his round of 16 commitments against Australian Max Purcell (86) 7-6 (7-5 ) and 6-1 and later in the quarterfinals against Chilean Cristian Garín (74) 6-1, 6-7 (2-7) and 6-3.
The 23-year-old from La Plata and a finalist this year in the ATP 250 in Santiago, Chile, where he lost the definition against local Nicolás Jarry, had defeated fellow Argentine Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (119) last Tuesday in the initial round and then unleashed a storm of wind and rain in Houston that caused suspensions and cancellations of the days of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Hence the overload of matches this weekend.
Tiafoe, 15th in the world ranking and top seed for the title, easily got rid of Brouwer (123) 6-4, 6-1.
The 25-year-old from Hyattsville needed just 58 minutes to leave the Dutchman on the road, who was never in opposition.
Tiafoe aspires in Houston, where he will play his sixth final on the circuit, to the second title of his career after the one he won in Delray Beach (Florida, also in the United States) in 2018.
The Houston ATP 250, which distributes $718,245, has had four Argentine champions throughout its history: José Luis Clerc (1980 and 1981), Horacio De La Peña (1993), Juan Ignacio Chela (2010) and Juan Mónaco (2012). and 2016).
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