Diego Schwartzman, bold, attentive and tireless: this is Nadal's rival in the semifinals

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Diego is already getting tired of semantic games based on the pseudonym that has accompanied him since he started.

Because

turned 28 on August 16 and has long since earned the right to speak more about his results than his 1.70, whether or not this is the smallest size among the top 100 tennis players on the circuit.

On Tuesday, after twisting

arm

in five hours and eight minutes and qualifying for his first Roland Garros semi-finals, he dismissed the umpteenth question that was intended as a nod between his bravery and his size.

«He continues to be the tennis player who worked hard all his life, and he has an important plus: he enjoys playing, something that is seen less and less.

We are used to obfuscated tennis players, with negative attitudes, "

, the coach who led Gastón Gaudio to win Roland Garros in 2004, and

to prevail five years later at the Open de United States and today he directs the British

.

In two weeks,

has defeated world number two and number three.

He beat

for the first time in 10 games

, in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Rome, and beat Thiem in the aforementioned battle.

In Rome he lost

his first Masters 1000 final

to

This Friday, at 3:00 pm.

(DMAX, 3:00 pm) will be measured again with Nadal.

Whatever happens, Monday will be in the top ten.

«It has always been very competitive.

I'm not surprised.

It's like the footballer who was prowling the area and scores.

He has grown since he has

as coach, before he counterattacked, now he commands more and closes the plays better.

He knows with which ball to attack and with which to defend, "says

, former world number 10 and former Davis Cup captain of the Argentine team, and now director of the Buenos Aires tournament.

Player of great challenges

Double quarter-finalist from the United States, in 2017 and last year, Schwartzman feeds back with the fans.

The Argentine fans who bench him every year at Queen's are generous, which he missed in this edition, where he fell in the first round against Britain's

.

He is a tennis player with great stages and great challenges, who finds it difficult to maintain regular results all season.

“He faces his limitations with fervor, with enormous claw and continuous evolution.

As he is not a great server, he applies himself to perfecting other luck in the game, such as the left.

Play more inside, put on the baseline, and the volley has also worked a lot, "says

, director for almost half a century of

and one of the greatest connoisseurs of Argentine tennis .

From Buenos Aires, a Boca Juniors devotee, Schwartzman was one of the many players from his country who needed outside sponsorship to get started in tennis.

Only

and

had the full support of the Argentine Tennis Association.

«He has been hardened at work.

Diego competes with you one hundred percent of the plays and makes you dispute the point two or three times.

I have had some player to whom I said that I was satisfied with him fighting 80% of the balls, "Davin said with a smile.

"His eyes are wide open"

There is a solid team behind it, in which, in addition to Juan Ignacio Chela,

stands out

, Del Potro's physical trainer in his great years and also Nadia Podoroska's right hand at this Roland Garros, where he stood by surprise in the semifinals.

«Diego is intelligent, he reads the games well, his eyes are wide open.

He has a game that Nadal can be bothered with.

It will not come out crowded, as we say here.

Trust him.

A little less than a year ago, when he clearly lost [6-1 and 6-2] against Rafa in Madrid, in the Davis Cup, he left angry and sad because he believed he could win, ”recalls Jaite.

Within this harmonious group, Diego listens, learns and continues to grow, but without losing his enormous personality.

"Don't tell me 'let's go', tell me what I have to do," he snapped at his coach, Chela, in one of the compromising moments of the tough quarterfinal match against

, in which the Austrian ended up delivering the last ball in a drop that hardly touches the net.

I was exhausted.

The Argentine had melted him from head to toe.

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