Tomas Martin Etcheverry stops Luciano Darderi’s run in Lyon: it ends 6-2, 6-4 in favor of the Argentine who was the best player on the pitch for most of the hour and a half of play and tomorrow the first title of his career will be played against one of Bublik or Mpetchi Perricard.
Etcheverry started better, putting much more energy into the exchanges, managing to prevail when the dribble got longer. A Darderi who, despite the day of rest yesterday, appears more exhausted and in difficulty. The Argentine then finds two breaksis more incisive and reactive than the blue and deservedly takes the first set with a score of 6-2.
In the second set the blue man manages to start better, cancels a break point with courage by attacking on the short ball and does not immediately go behind in the score as happened in the first set. The match is decidedly closer and more balanced than the first set, with Darderi entering the match and managing to be more incisive. The Italian-Argentine has three balls for the 5-3 in the eighth game, but one is wasted with the bunt, the other two are well canceled out by Etcheverry who then gets the break in the next game and closes at 6-4.
Etcheverry who threw eight aces throughout the match and with the first serve he scored 25 points out of 30, saving the only three break points conceded. Just 53% of firsts on the pitch for Darderi with 61% yield.
