Fran Cerundolo knows what he needs to beat João Fonseca in the Argentina Open final

After a practically perfect week, the local tennis player Francisco closing it (28) agreed for the second time to the final of the Argentina Open, in which he will go in search of his four title in the circuit this Sunday, when in front of one of the maximum promises such as the Brazilian Joao Fonseca (99 °).

Thanks to his forceful successes versus the Italian Luciano Darderi (59 °), his brother Juan Manuel Cerú (139 °), the German Alexander Zverev (2nd) and the Spanish Pedro Martínez (41 °), the pupil of Kevin Konfederak became in just the Fifth Albiceleste in repeating definition in the ATP 250 of Buenos Airesafter Guillermo Coria, José Acasuso, Juan Monaco and Diego Schwartzman, who only proclaimed themselves on one occasion.

“I have had many moments of very good tennis in these last four years. This week I am feeling very comfortable, I am playing very well, but I do not want to catalog her as the best of my life. It seems very hurried by four games. I hope to keep this in the future, “said the participant at the Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024, at a press conference.

Subsequently, the 12 players installed in the top 10 of the world ranking referred to little rest: “I have been playing every day too late, I’m going to bed very late, around 02 in the morning. It becomes complicated the next day, you sleep little. It is difficult to manage that. I tried to go to bed as soon as possible to prepare for today, I could not celebrate much because I had another very hard game. “

“Tomorrow is going to be a very hard game. He is very young, he has a lot of freshness and nothing to lose. He is just growing, he always plays loose, he has very good shots and is an impressive player. Surely we will see it in the best rankings and in the best tournaments, “the champion in Bastad 2022, Eastbourne 2023 and Umag 2024 on the talented Carioca, only 18 years old, revealed.

In tune, the two -time Eighth in Roland Garros said: “He is still polishing his game, but he already has an impressive level. I’m going to need my best tennisit will be a battle, because he will want to win at all costs his first tournament and I here at home. There will be many people for both of us. “

Finally, the former 19 of the planet recalled his journey in the Buenos Aires brick dust in 2021, when he exceeded the QUALY And he gave versus his compatriot Diego Schwartzman in the decisive encounter: “It was one of my first ATP tournamentsthere was already 110 or 120, strengthened in the Challengers, at the verge of getting into the top 100. It was all a carambola the final, I wasn’t very prepared yet To play these games, both tennis and mentally. “

“Today there are four years in the top 30I am learning a lot. My game changed, I settled, improving and incorporating things. I have more experience, that time Diego shakes me everywhere, I could not play, “he culminated by closing it, which will now leave as a candidate at home.