The victory that the Yucatecan achieved this Saturday Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez not only placed him in the grand final of the Bonfiglio Trophy Tournament, in Milan, Italy. he also made the Mérida-born lefty score enough points so that, when the International Tennis Federation rankings are updated on Monday, appear as number one in the world.
Rodrigo defeated Austrian Joel Schwaerzler, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, after a torrid second set, to go to the singles finals, and then won the doubles tournament, partnering Yaroslav Demin of Russia.
The Yucatecan entered the tournament as third on the ITF lists for 18-year-olds in singles, scoring 1,834 points, with Belgian Alexander Blockx topping the table with 2,087.5. He has four victories at the Bonfiglio J500 Trophy in Milan, including Saturday’s against Schwaerzler. The tournament awards 500 points to the winner and by being in the final Rodrigo accumulates enough units to unseat Blockx.
According to data provided by Jorge Robleda Moguel, Yucatecan youth tennis promoter and creator of the Yucatan World Cup, never has a Mexican reached the top of the ITF rankings. In singles, he recalled that tennis players like Luis Enrique “Araña” Herrera was third, Óliver Fernández fourth, and other youth figures in the country, such as Eduardo Vélez and Agustín “Bebé” Moreno, were near the top.
On Sunday he will play the final against the American Cooper Williams, seeded number 12, who defeated the Chinese Zhou Yi 6-3 and 4-0, with retirement.
In the doubles final, on Saturday at the end of the session, Rodrigo and the Russian Demin defeated the Italian Federico Ciná who, together with the Japanese Rei Sakamoto with a double 6-3 to keep the trophy. On Sunday he will try to put the icing on the cake to this historic performance.- Gaspar Silveira
2023-05-27 20:49:00
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