Updated
30/08/2021
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20:24
Feliciano Lopez He keeps trying, he keeps fighting to the limit, he keeps preparing like the first day with his coach Vicente Calvo, but he doesn’t have the reward of the results. In what could have been his last game at the US Open as a professional, the left-hander from Toledo has yielded to his compatriot Bernab Zapata by 5-7, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 and 6-3.
Feli has chained 78 presences today in the ‘Grand Slam’. It remains to be seen how much longer that sequence will be able to lengthen. And it is that next September 20 turns 40.
In the next update of the ATP ranking, to fall outside the ‘top100’, a hndicap to continue playing the sport of racket. Entering the tables is what has kept Pepo Clavet’s pupil in the elite, who is also the director of the Mutua Madrid Open.
At the end of the course there is an exciting final phase of the Davis Cup where Spain defends the title. Feli has five of the six Salad Bowls that appear in the palmars of Spanish tennis. Zapata, coming from the previous one, signs his best performance in the last big one of the calendar.
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