Taylor Fritz the reaction was silenced Hubert Hurkacz, which he won in three sets (6-4, 5-7 and 7-6(4), and sealed the second title of United Cup for the United States Coco Gauff had previously placed by defeating Iga Swiatek.
Without having to reach the mixed doubles point, the American team achieved the second trophy of this event, which will reach its third edition in 2025. Poland, however, is once again at the door. Last year they also played in the final and lost to Germany.
Fritz, ranked fourth in the world, once again defeated Hurkacz, whom he had lost in four of the five previous matches they had arranged. Including the latest, the only one on earth, last year, at the Masters 1000 in Madrid. And he did it again in this event, in the United Cup, as it happened in the 2023 edition The only time in which the Pole, sixteenth on the circuit, won a duel against the American was in 2019, in the Masters 1000 from in Montreal. .
It was Sunday’s most balanced match, which was decided in a tiebreaker of the third and final set, after two hours and twenty minutes. The Pole reacted with confidence after his rival won the first with authority and the high-profile clash led to the deciding stage. No one gave up and they had to decide the details in the tie break.
Fritz completed the task previously started by Coco Gauff scoring the first point for the United States. The North American defeated former world number one Iga Swiatek again with a double 6-4.
The North American defeated the European in the last duel between the two, at the end of last season, at the WTA Finals. Now, in the United Cup he did it again.
Gauff’s third victory in fourteen fights came in one hour and 49 minutes. The duel between Swiatek, the second tennis player in the world, and Gauff, the third, two players who won all their singles and doubles matches at this event, showed the best moment of the twenty-year-old player from Florida who closed 2024 with victory in the Finals after defeating the two most powerful rivals in women’s tennis: Sabalenka and the tennis player from Warsaw.
Gauff and Fritz’s victories gave the United States its second United Cup title.
Source: La Verdad
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