With another formidable performance, Francisco Comesana closed two dream weeks. The man from Mar del Plata conquered on Sunday the Buenos Aires Challenger by beating him in the decisive match Mariano Navone 6-4 and 6-0 at the Argentine Tennis Club, and celebrated his second consecutive conquest in this category of the men’s tennis tour, since last week he had also lifted the champion trophy at the Corrientes Challenger.
Comesaña, ranked 239th in the ATP world ranking, beat the player who emerged on July 9 after 1 hour and 14 minutes of play, after an even first set, and with the man from Mar del Plata as a dominant player in the second part. Thus, the outcome of what happened in Corrientes was also repeated, since in that city Comesaña had also beaten Navone in straight sets.
The champion and the finalist in the Argentine Tennis Club: Francisco Comesaña and Mariano Navone
“I’m not understanding anything, ha. Winning last week was a tremendous achievement for me and I got to this week with a lot of confidence, and game after game my performance improved”, said Comesaña, who will rise some 26 positions for this victory and will be close to 213 world ranking. The man from Mar del Plata, trained by Facundo Argüello, completed a climb of almost 200 steps, since he started the season as the 411th in the world.
The joy of Comesaña, who advanced almost 200 positions in the ranking since last January
“I know that there is a long way to go, that there is a long way to go, but who tells you that next year we cannot dream of the top 100″, added Comesaña, who will continue his tour at the Challenger in Cali, and possibly later in Bogotá, before preparing for the cement tour that will end at the US Open, with good chances of qualifying for the last Grand Slam of the season.
Navone was very satisfied with the two finals he reached in these two weeks: “I didn’t imagine all this. While we’ve made a lot of changes and worked hard since January, I never expected to be playing like this in June, making it to the Challengers or Futures finals.” The one from 9 de Julio, who trains at Alejandro Toto Cerúndolo’s academy, has just made an important technical change in the handle of the drive, and the results seem to have come in recent tournaments. He will be located this Monday near the 358th position in the ranking.
The hug between Francisco Comesaña and his coach, Facundo Argüello
The one from Comesaña was the eleventh title of an Argentine this year in the tournaments of the Challenger category, the one that follows in importance to the ATP. To the two that the man from Mar del Plata obtained in Corrientes and in Buenos Aires, are added those conquered by Pedro Cachín (Madrid and Prague), Santiago Rodríguez Taverna (Tigre 1), Francisco Cerúndolo (Santa Cruz de la Sierra), Tomás Martín Etcheverry (Concepción , Chile), Facundo Bagnis (Pereira, Colombia), Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Tigre 2), Facundo Díaz Acosta (Coquimbo) and Federico Coria, who this Sunday won the title in Milan, just hours before his participation in Wimbledon.
