Ethe young man Mikael Ymer starred in a surprising comeback against the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, fifteenth seed, and won by 7-5 and 6-3 in the semi-final at the Wisnton-Salem Open to become the first Swede to reach an ATP Tour final in a decade.
His rival in the final in which there will be no seed – Alcaraz was the last one left – will be Ilya Ivashka, who defeated Finn Emil Ruusuvuori 6-2, 6-1 in the other semi-final and sought to become the first Belarusian ATP champion since 2003 when Max Mirnyi won the singles title in Rotterdam.
The triumph of the 22-year-old Ymer came in a surprising way after coming back from an adverse score of 3-5 in the first set with seven straight games to win it 7-5 and then go 3-0 in the second, which also awarded it.
Ymer He is playing his first US Open Series event, but with the confidence gained by reaching consecutive quarter-finals in his two most recent clay-court tournaments: in Gstaad and Kitzbuehel. Robin Soderling was the last Swede to reach a final, winning Bastad in 2011.
While Alcaraz, 18, who was playing his third semifinals of the tour, his first on hard court, He could not continue in the fight for his second ATP title, nor could he take revenge for the defeat he had already suffered in the last Australian Open tournament against Ymer.
Although he had a brilliant and dominant start to the game, he then fell into the trap of long rallies proposed by Ymer and that’s when he started making unforced errors that cost him the game.
Despite the defeat, Alcaaraz reaches his first US Open full of morale and will have the first acid test in the opening round when he faces the English Cameron Norrie, twenty-sixth seeded.
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