Last Sunday, at the Caja Mágica, Álex Ruiz and Momo González thought that they could have done something more in the final of the Master that Belasteguín and Coello won. Yes, Coello had been spectacular as always “but the one who has beaten us has been Bela”, Ruiz said at the end of the game. This afternoon the two Malagans have the opportunity to take a particular revenge against the Spanish-Argentinean duo in the semifinals of the Amsterdam Open. On the other side of the draw, early in the afternoon (second match, after the women’s scheduled for 12:00), GAlán and Lebrón will have Stupaczuk and Lima as rivals, the only couple that won their quarterfinal match in two sets.
Momo and Ruiz left Sanyo and Tapia in the lurch, who for the third consecutive time and since they are number two, do not reach the semifinals; before they were always, at least, in the prelude to the final. It was an entertaining but interminable game, perhaps with more unforced errors than usual, in a month in which Tapia has not been as fine as his talent is claimed. September has been the horrible month for the Argentines, and not even the 5-7 start allowed them to dominate a Momo who was everywhere, who was capable of making two starts at the same point, who covered the entire track, an Álex who ended up looking for an excellent punch to make a double 6-4 coming back in each sleeve. They also started sending Navarro and Di Nenno, who on a track where the punch is not so decisive, seemed to have a relative advantage over Coello and Belasteguín: 2-6 at the start and then the world fell on top of them, due to haste above all, before a Bela who dominated them from the bottom so that Coello could score near the net, and to finish off Navarro possessed by his impatient demons: 6-2 and 6-3.
Galán and Lebrón also started losing against Chingotto and Tello, because when they wanted to realize they were 0-5, for a 3-6 in this first quarter. Tello was the protagonist of almost everything, of the very good (extraordinary points) and the bad, of a superlative self-demand that led him to lose positions that Galán and then Lebrón took advantage of, with Chingotto working without result throughout the track: 6-3 and 6-4. Lima and Stupa, the other semifinalists, were the only ones who did not start losing: they quickly beat Lucho Capra and Máxi Sánchez with relative ease: 6-2 and 6-3. That is why they point out that they will give war to the number one, who in Amsterdam again distance Sanyo and Tapia and Navarro and Di Nenno, on a Saturday with an eye also on the World Cup, with the eight Argentines determined, and with the Spaniards falling.
