Pablo Carreño, inglorious

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The break before the fifth set brought back a recent image.

As in the quarterfinals against

,

needed a massage in the lower back.

It is an area where he already had many problems at the beginning of his career, and that forced him to undergo surgery so as not to retire at age 20.

What

happened on

Tuesday, like this, was an overload in the lower back, but while against the Canadian he came out revitalized against

did not find his way back.

After an overwhelming start to the game,

.

Impossible to intuit the outcome in the first acts.

There was no smoke and not even a gun.

So superior was the beginning of the Asturian, with that point of maturity and determination with which he came out on a stage that he already knew.

He had already been there in 2017, but if that semifinal seemed unexpected even for him, in this one he jumped with the conviction of who knows he belongs to that set.

Three years ago he had a very friendly team and at this US Open he

and put aside one of the rackets with the most future.

Zverev, an even greater prodigy, managed to put him on the ropes.

Carreño delved into the doubts of the German: he looked for the right, still tender, and pressed the second service, surprising weakness in a good server like him.

The Teuton suffered until he settled down, until he made the most of that serve and a setback that has few rivals on the circuit.

Zverev was gaining ground and if you ask the Asturian almost up to height.

Carreño faded away, saying goodbye in the semifinals of the tournament in which he was reunited with the version that the injuries had removed.

Zverev's rival in the final will come out of the duel between

.

No one knows what it is to win a big one.

Carreño's flight

Impossible, we said, to intuit that outcome at the beginning.

Because Carreño had managed to undress the armor with which Zverev wanted to leave, an extra defensive player against

.

The German already reached number three in the world when he was 20 years old, but he still has things to polish.

The most obvious, the right, a hit that the Asturian punished whenever he could, and the second service.

The German has a great first serve, but wobbles when he does not enter.

In the first two sets, he

.

And few entered, especially in that hesitant start.

Just 57%, compared to 71% of the Asturian.

One of those loopholes through which the psychological fragility that is sometimes attributed to him appeared.

Until this year it had been difficult for him to perform at his best level in the greats.

In

already reached the semifinal but in this, even repeating the step, he had advanced leaving some doubts.

Still lacking that fortitude that he did demonstrate by lifting for the first time in his career a match that lost two sets to zero to get into his first Grand Slam final.

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