Franco Stupaczuk and Alex Ruiz achieved their second tournament of the season in Mexico DF, and as in the first, against Paquito Navarro and Di Nenno, who played their eighth consecutive final, and that for the first time in the year they had the opportunity to have attacked the first place in the ranking and snatch it from Galán and Lebrón, that they had fallen in the quarters before the later winners.
The Mexico Open, the last tournament of the year before the final Master reserved for the 16 best players of the season, It was possibly the most bland tournament of the year, although it was also the most complicated as it was played in unusual conditions that forced the players to radically change their way of acting and plan long matches. of endless balloons, of constant repetitions of shots, in search of the rival’s failure, of points of more than six minutes and with 200 hits before defining. Aggression was penalized.
In the semi-finals, for example, between Ruiz and Stupa before Yanguas and LampertiRuiz had to be assisted by a drop in tension that had him on the brink of retreat. He had lost the first set, he fell in the second, but with medical help he was able to recover, and win the match. Couples like Sanyo and Tapia or Coello and Belasteguín also fell prematurely, unadapted to the game imposed by the track..
In the final, which initially seemed that Navarro and Ruiz were favorites due to their defensive ability, but Ruiz and Stupa won 6-3, 3-6 and 6-2. First, because they entered the game better and stood 4-0; and then, because in the third set they knew how to evolve with the environmental conditions to be more aggressive in their proposal at stake.
Now it will be the Final Master who decides if there is a change in numbers. Galán and Lebrón defend their position without margin, but they will keep him if Paquito Navarro and Di Nenno do not finish better than them and eliminated in the same round, for example.
