Luck smiles at Cristian Gutiérrez and Franco Stupaczuk. In the first semifinal of the Granada Open they achieved the pass to the grand final in a duel that was decided by details and I can fall to any side (6-4, 3-6 and 6-7).
The first semifinal was presented with a halo of uncertainty. As protagonist actors Cristian Gutiérrez and Franco Stupaczuk in front of the 'Juanes', The fashion couple this week in the World Padel Tour and probably the favorite of the grandstand.
A meeting that was going to start hectic, chaotic and indecisive. Juan Martín Díaz and, especially Juan Lebrón, enjoy the chaos generated by their irreverent and offensive game and thus they were going to propose the first set. Their fine and precise game delicately weaved each play until they allowed them to achieve a 'break' that, in the end, would be the decisive one to win the set.
The 'Juanes' had proposed a gibberish that was difficult to solve for their rivals, but, based on tenacity and agility, Stupaczuk was going to find the answers. The Chaqueño took a step forward in the second set - held largely by Cristian - and multiplied by the track. He hurt Lebrón, he kept his eyes on Juan Martín's network where the majority gave up and defined when the occasion required.. Even when it seemed a chimera. The result was a second more stable and predictable set that granted the equalizer to the Argentines and sent the shock to the third set.
A definitive set that went through different phases. The cyclical states of mind of the four players - especially Lebrón and Stupaczuk - unbalanced the balance constantly making the resolution indecipherable.
They broke Stupa and Cristian. With 4-5 in the market, they even managed to win the match, but they gave way under pressure from a stratospheric Lebrón that at the culminating moment he moved with agility like the tightrope walker who is facing one of the challenges of his life. And the match came back. At times.
The imbalance proposed by Lebrón and Juan Martín damaged some Stupa and Cristian who, perhaps, sinned in excess of conservatives. But a new stumble was coming. The problem of playing the edge is that the slightest slip makes you fall to the ground and that was going to happen to the 'Juanes'. They had achieved the break, they served to get ahead again, but they missed until the counterbreak fit.
The meeting seemed to be seen for sentencing but it would still have a thousand and one more turns of a nut. Diaz and Lebrón would repeat the feat to achieve the break 'in extremis' and send the match to the final tie-break. What happened from then on is worth seeing and not telling. Comings and goings, dream plays, outings and unlikely recoveries. A concatenation of successes and errors that turned sudden death into a constant carousel of emotions.
And they were victorious Stupa and Cristian. Neither they deserved more nor less than their rivals. They knew how to take advantage of the slightest advantage that gave a shot to the return of JMD that played on the network and could have a different ending. Stupa, with a suspension shot, closed the match in style and achieved a new ending.
Sanyo and Maxi do not give option to Lamperti and Mieres
In the second semifinal match, in the afternoon, they were going to measure Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez in front of Miguel Lamperti and Juani Mieres. Couples one and five face to face and in a luxury setting.
A shock that gave like clear favorites to Maxi and Sanyo, paper that would not avoid the numbers one. From the first beat they put the all-terrain mode and, literally, they went over overflowing Lamperti and Mieres.
The first set, simply, was a military walk by Gutiérrez y Sánchez. They tightened their rivals, imposed a pace impossible to achieve today for any duo of the world padel and punished every mistake. The result, an irrefutable 6-1 in his favor.
The second heat, this time, threatened to be more equal. Sanyo and Maxi soon broke the script of the first set, but this time it did not melló the spirits of some Lamperti and Mieres who believed until the end.
The 6-4 of the second set closed a match seen for sentence and gave the pass to the final Sanyo and Maxi who will fight to add their seventh title of the season.
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