Chering him looking for his great deed in the Magic Fund
The Argentine will play the 2nd semifinal ATP Masters 1000 of his career
May 01, 2025
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Francisco Cerúndo him celebrates his victory in the quarterfinals of Mutua Madrid Open.
By Drafting ATP in Spanish
Francisco closing him to compete in the altitude of the Magic Fund. Now, he is two steps to lift the cup at the Mutua Madrid Open.
The Argentine continued writing a memorable tournament this Thursday, defeating 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 to the Czech Jakub Mensik to reach the second semifinal ATP Masters 1000 of his career. In a high voltage match, where only two points separated him from the elimination, the South American exhibited a remarkable mental strength to expand his candidacy in the Spanish capital.
Dozens of Albicelestes flags gathered at the Arantxa Sánchez Stadium, where the closeness of the public multiplies the feeling of support from the stand. In that hotbed of emotions, the Buenos Aires found a fundamental impulse to survive in the most complicated game of the tournament. Far from being intimidated by the hard blows of his rival, closing him took his heart to find the way to the penultimate round.
“I am very tired, I have run a lot today … It has connected incredible blows with a lot of power,” he said ceru. “I feel very happy for what I did today, it has been a very complicated game. I never had control, I had to grab the track and keep fighting.”
The one in Buenos Aires had to stop one of the players with the greatest recent inertia of the moment, breaking Mesik a streak of nine consecutive victories in ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. The Czech raised the biggest crown of his career in the Miami Open presented by It Itaú in March, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.
The horizon opens a huge possibility in the hands of chering it. The Argentine will play the second semifinal ATP Masters 1000 of his career, after reaching the penultimate round of Miami in the 2022 season. A memory that the South American recovered with a valuable perspective.
“In that 1000 Masters of 2022 I think I was not even within the top 100,” he valued. “It was the first big tournament in which I did well. I had very few games at ATP level, very few games against the best players in the world. Now more than three years have passed since that tournament and grew a lot in experience, tennis and learning.”
The Argentine lands in the semifinal of Madrid turned into a respected player, stripped of the youth that wrapped him three seasons ago on the tracks of Florida. The Magic Fund will receive a tennis player already installed in the Top 20, with multiple ATP Tour titles on clay and with respect accumulated on the surface, capable of reaching the second week of Roland Garros in the last two seasons. “I am a completely different player and a person. Now I am again in that instance and eager to play it.”
The classification of Cerúndo also served to send a message to the locker room, witness of a player increasingly accustomed to the taste of victory. The Argentine was placed as a player with more games won in season (24) matching the records of Carlos Alcaraz and Alex de Miñaur, both already separated from the competition on the Spanish clay.
Now, the last obstacle towards the fight for the title will require a game to the highest level on beaten soil. Cerú will dispute the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open before the 14th head of the Casper Ruud series, twice runner -up of Roland Garros. The Norwegian won 6-3, 7-5 to Daniil Medvedev in the match that opened the day at the Manolo Santana stadium. The South American dominates 5-3 a history Lexus ATP Head2head that presents total equality (2-2) in duels on brick dust.
The Argentine also assured a huge prize with his climbing to the semifinals in the Magic Fund. Closing it appears as No. 18 of the PIF ATP Live Rankings and will get the highest position of his career from next Monday.
For its part, Mesik was one step away from becoming the fifth Czech with multiple ATP Masters 1000 finals in individual modality (since the creation of the category in 1990). The following tournament in the Central European calendar will be the internal BNL d’Halia, whose main picture begins on Wednesday, May 7.
Did you know what …?
Francisco Cerúndo has become the first Argentine player capable of reaching the semifinals of Mutua Madrid Open from Juan Martín del Potro in the 2012 season
