After so many vicissitudes, the rejection of
Rafa Nadal and Bautista
, the hopes of the first days, of Black Wednesday with the eliminations of
Davidovich
,
Paula Badosa
(due to indisposition) and, above all,
Garbiñe Muguruza
, Spanish tennis hastened its last opportunity in a big way, with the heroism of
Pablo Carreño
under the suffocating Tokyo heat. The Asturian will fight for the medals after melting the world number two (6-2 and 7-6 (7-5) in one hour and 42 minutes, a
Daniil Medvedev
visibly affected from the very beginning of the match.
It was a Carreño cyclone, which the day before had also ended up being touched by stupor - "I'm a wreck, I can't think." The organization, after everyone's protests and
Djokovic's
negotiations
, decided to delay the semifinals day for a couple of hours. But in the Ariake Park the great protagonist was still the same. The Spaniard seemed to adapt better from the start. Already in the sixth game he broke the Russian's serve and ended up winning the first set (6-2) with 11 unforced errors from Medvedev.
The second seed in Tokyo took his time in the locker room to come back. He changed his clothing, from red to white, and seemed to react with a
break
at the first change. But Carreño had one last bullet, the chance of a lifetime - he has already won six ATP titles: Winston-Salem and Moscow (2016), Estoril (2017), Chengdu (2019) and Marbella and Hamburg this year. He took advantage of his
break
point
in the eighth to equalize and in the
tie break
, despite the nerves that made him waste his advantage - two unforced errors at 5-3 - he achieved his goal.
He yelled "Come on!"
Carreño, with his fists in the air in Tokyo.
They will be seen in the semifinals with an old acquaintance, another Russian,
Karen Khachano
v.
Both belong to the Real Tennis Club of Barcelona.
The world number 25 defeated
Humbert
-
Tsitsipas
executioner
- in the previous duel (7-6, 4-6 and 6-3).
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