El Paris Challenger follow its course. If the previous days we had lived days full of excitement, surprises and adjusted results, this Friday the quarterfinal was going to bring the domain of favorite couples.
Because, to achieve the pass to the semifinals, the best placed pairs would not fail. At least, in the first turns. The Paris Challenger is defining which pairs can fight for the first title in the French capital and nobody wants to miss such an honor.
They were going to open the day Gonzalo Rubio and Pablo Lijó. The couple number four of Paris Challenger had a hard confrontation before Gadea and Tamame, number seven, but they were going to dominate the match from start to finish.
And it would be like that because they would define in the most important moments of the first set. In ua equal sleeve and with options for both sides, Rubio and Lijó were made with the set in the definitive tie-break. A hit on the table that would allow them to navigate more calmly in the second set to finish the match by 6-7 and 3-6.
Already in the second shift of the day, the first great shock would come. Fede Chingotto and Juan Tello they were going to measure their forces against Javier Martínez Vázquez and Adrián Blanco Antelo and they were going to be victorious. But almost.
Because the match was presented equal from the first measure and with ups and downs of both pairs. Such was the parity that only the sudden death was going to determine that the first sleeve fell on the side of the Argentines.
And the same thing was going to happen with the second, but it is on the opposite side. Antelo and Vázquez were made with a second set traced to the first and forced the game to go to the end.
Then, equality was broken. Chingotto and Tello took off early on the scoreboard to avoid the final surprise and ended up closing the match by a tight 7-6, 6-7 and 6-3.
In the two second-round matches they would achieve the pass Álvaro Cepero and Seba Nerone, couple number two, and Ramiro Moyano and Lucho Capra, dupla number one,
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