Alejandro Davidovich’s metamorphosis at the Toronto Masters 1,000 remained in the semifinals. Alex de Minaur, whose best virtue is to dominate others with his solid baseline game and his cunning to dominate but not dominate, completely disfigured the virtuoso and explosive game, ending the man from Malaga in just over an hour (6 -1 and 6-3), having found the perfect balance between power and pause in the previous rounds against two top players like Alexander Zverev and Casper Ruud and an annoying server like Mackenzie McDonald but hit the Australian wall . However, the student of Jorge Aguirre got a profitable legacy from Toronto: the best ranking of his career -he will go from 37 to 23 on Monday-, and a deep belief in what he can be.
Despite how much ‘Foki’ from Canada took -his best result in a 1,000 hard track Masters-, the man from Malaga suffered one of those painful defeats that leaves a player who no emotion lately. The almost four games won by Alex and the transience of failure reflect the enthusiastic command of Alex de Miñaur -who will face Tommy Paul or Jannik Sinner in the final-, and the chaos of the Spaniard, who did not win a single service in the second set -all games won in the rest-, as a reflection of their anarchy.
Faced with the impossibility of finding his rhythm, Davidovich also did not rely on his serve, which did not suit the 4 double faults he committed -he started by giving up his serve in the second set, making two of them- , and there are only 41. % of points won on the first serve and 33% on the second for 56% and 54% of the ‘aussie’, who also started to beat the rest, pragmatic like all his game on break balls with 7/ 9 taken by 3/9 from ‘Fokie’.
De Minaur’s sticky and desperate game plan drew attention to the most unstable Davidovich who hadn’t been heard all week. Refreshed by the peace that his new reading habit gives him, instead of losing the duel against the world number 18, the man from Malaga loses the battle against himself and the impatient and imprecise Davidovich has reappeared. The Australian also motivated him, playing with the patience of ‘Foki’, returning everything well and always giving the initiative to the Spaniard.
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Source: La Verdad
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