Gastón Gaudio is a historic Argentine tennis player who was part of the famous La Legión group, where he not only won a large number of titles that make him one of the best in the country, but also left memorable phrases in each of the matches he played. that are impossible to forget by tennis lovers. Among so many statements, he remembered that he had in the middle of a point next to Fernando Gonzalez.
To remember that situation, you have to travel back in time and deposit yourself in the first months of 2012, when the first match of the Summer Cup exhibition tournament in Punta del Este, Uruguay, was played, in which Feña participated along with “Gato”, Juan Martin Del Potro and Gustavo Kuerten. In this sense, Throughout the first set, Gastón Gaudio screamed in the middle of defining a point that caused not only the laughing fit of Fernando Gonzalezbut also of all the spectators.
The first set was running with the match tied 2-2 and 40-40 with the service under the command of the triple Olympic medalist. With an excellent serve to the T, he forced a forced return by the Buenos Aires native, which allowed the Chilean to take a parallel right hand, where Gaudio arrived just enough with a high shot and at that moment is when the “Cat” shouted: “Hit him slowly, eh” and caused laughter from the entire main field of the Cantegril Country Club.
At the next point, to continue Gastón Gaudio’s joke, Fernando González made a reply by answering him with a question between laughs: “Are you sure?” At this, the Argentine with a smile on his face and the complicity of all the spectators nodded in agreement. Finally, the “Bombardero de La Reina” was left with the victory by 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3 and faced Juan Martín Del Potro in the final.
Fuente: (Egor Geroev)
“It would be a fake”
Beyond the great moments that were lived with Fernando González on the court, there were also situations with other tennis players that caused the relationship to not be the best. This is the case he had with Marcelo Ríos, the best Chilean in history, who had several problems on and off the field that caused him to go to court to solve them. For this reason, after several years, “Chino” gave details about the relationship with “Mano de Piedra”.
“I have no relationship with him because of things in life, because of things of fate. We are of different ages and there were comments from him and me that did not go down well with both of us. We never had a friendly relationship. There was no wave, it would be a fake. But it’s not that he’s an enemy either, if I see him, I salute him, ”he commented in dialogue with” Canal de Tenis Chile “.
