He fought him but managed to escape Ferdinand Verdasco (6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-3 and 6-3). Although gone, another stubbornness within the Madrilenian’s remarkable ongoing struggle, that of his 38 years and with one more race than done, he’s running and running to get back into the top 100 after a 2021 marked by injuries. Naa 122 of the ATP rankings at the moment, he will not be able to do the same at the US Open, where he showed in the first round the fight and his explosive tennis of a lifetime against the favoritism of the South Korean. Soonwoo Kwon14 years younger (24) and 81 of the world.
There was room for Fer’s aesthetic winning shots -44 against the Asian’s 32-, but they were not forced by mistakes, they were too heavy for the man from Madrid, who had up to 44 for only 18 from Korean. Winning the tie-break of the second set to level the match raised the illusion of advancing to the second round but two mid-set ‘breaks’ in the next two sets took it away from him. ‘Fer’ entered the last frame as ‘lucky loser’ after losing to Russian Kotov in the third and final qualifying round.
The Big Apple experienced good afternoons of Verdasco, of his strong and dazzling tennis, especially in 2009 and 2010, his best top-10 season. In 2009, he enjoyed his first quarter-finals after eliminating John Isner and falling against Novak Djokovic but the edition in which he captivated the passionate public in New York was in 2010, when in the second round he clinched in of 4 hours and 23 minutes. David Ferrer (5-7, 6-7(8), 6-3, 6-3 and 7-6(4) a game he lost several times.
Who can tell otherwise when they see it two sets downwhen Ferrer went up 4-2 in the final set and when he fell 4-1 in the tiebreak of that dramatic set. Rafael Nadal a whirlwind at that US Open on his serve to raise his first wound in the United States, stopping him in the quarterfinals in three sets.
The past is in the past, but perhaps that glorious return serves to account for the many lives Verdasco has had. Now, caught in the loop that the previous ones always were, he was no longer guaranteed a place in the big tournaments but decided to get down in the mud and enter the Challengers. He lifted one from Monterrey in March but the path to the top 100 requires more regularity in results. He said at the beginning of the year that, if he didn’t finish the year in the top 100, he would call it quits. Continue with that idea or not, there’s definitely still one last good tournament to be seen, one last big coup by Fernando Verdasco.
Source: La Verdad
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