In Felix Auger-Aliassime, 22 years old and world no. junior category. In the premiere they lost to Spain at the Caja Mágica in Madrid in the final. They didn’t fail the second time around, with more maturity and fewer serious risks along the way.
Without the Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonicmassacred by injuries, but with the veteran Vasek Pospisil still lending a very effective hand in doubles and a system with three matches to the best of three sets, Auger-Aliassime, in his best professional season, and now the most irregular Denis Shapovalov soon they won the first ‘silver salad bowl’ for their country, the sixteenth to enter the Davis Cup record.
This is the ninth different champion in as many editions. Nothing repeats from the doublet of Czech Republic in 2012 and 2013.
Canada left Australia with honey on their lips, going on to count its last ‘salad bowl’ having to look back to 2003, when its current captain took over. Lleyton Hewitt. the students of Frank Dancevic They settled the final against Martín Carpena with great efficiency, 2-0.
Denis Shapovalov opened with success Thanasi Kokkinakisagain selected among the singles that came before jordan thompson, by 6-2 and 6-4 in 1h.29′. There is no precedent for this conflict being resolved without blinking an eye by the American left. Yes, Auger-Aliassime has passed Alex De Minaur this course, in Cincinnati by 6-3 and 6-2.
And the Canadian number one, one of the most dominant indoors and hard courts, sealed the win 6-3 and 6-4 in 1h.40′, without letting go of his serve, raising eight ‘break’ balls as if there were none happened . Plethoric state of form of the pupil of Frederic Fontang and Toni Nadal. Ranked sixth in the world, he showed signs of being the highest-ranked tennis player among those present in the city of Malaga. Three singles and one double were won, and in what manner, brilliantly, took all eight sets played.
He lost his first eight ATP finals, he had to wait for the ninth to open a record with four titles this 2022: Rotterdam, Florence, Antwerp and Basel. His first great year. For quality and youth, more to come.
A check of 2,500,000 dollars for the champions, one of 1,500,000 for the finalists, where none, at their own discretion, is a long-awaited Nick Kyrgios.
Alexis Galarneau, 23 years old, and Gabriel’s dayI’m crying, 21, who both reached the top-200 of the ATP world rankings, will join Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov and Pospisil as champions of a historic Canadian team. In front of 9,522 spectators, in a continuous public success from the first to the last day: 61,916 fans adding six days of competition.
Ironically, Canada made it to the Finals, the group stage and the final of 8, thanks to one of the two invitations granted in each edition because in the March qualifiers, without their best rackets, they lost 0-4 in Low Countries.
Source: La Verdad
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