Juan Martin del Potro will play the final against the winner between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, in full explosion competitive, stood for the first time in his career in a Grand Slam final at the expense of the expectations of the Spanish Rafael Nadal (6-2, 6-2, 6-2), whose court was insufficient to extend further its ambitions in the U.S. Open.
The last major course he resists number two circuit. For the second year stayed on the bank of the final. In 2007 slowed by Andy Murray. This, by Argentine Juan Martin del Potro. On both occasions, the victim of hasty push two rackets and a remarkable reputation in the circuit.
Nadal's game fell short at the push of South America, already aware of the potential that encompasses and is definitely convinced of its possibilities. Has matured. His mentality is strong.
Del Potro has between his eyebrows the U.S. Open. No pulse trembled from the start of the game. And whenever he pulled his setbacks great resource. The serve. Every time he threatened her service Nadal, the tennis player from Tandil countered with an undeniable blow.
The third South American to reach a final at Flushing Meadows after Peru's Alex Olmedo, who lost to Australia's 1959 and Neale Fraser Fellow Argentine Guillermo Vilas in 1977, the only one who won the tournament after beating Jimmy Connors, won full return serve, he never lost. When I entered first, won 85 percent of the points. When he had to play with the second, 78.
Nadal, who has faced the problem determined by abdominal its way through the tournament, found the formula for the South American tutear. Never had the mastery of the game. To move from side to side to a huge adversary, capable of reaching solutions, each of the alternatives proposed to the Spaniard.
Always stayed on serve Juan Martin del Potro. While Nadal suffered every time he staged his own. In the first set, the Argentine signed two breaks. He won the rest. Like the second. Nadal had break options with an eyedropper. But the racket of Tandil always overcame two blows.
Lack of pace
The player Spanish, who nonetheless has returned to world number two at the end of the tournament, still suffers from set-up. Seventy days away from the competition because of tendinitis in her knees had returned to Nadal in the competition with a little shooting. And on the surface it evolves with more difficulty. The hard court. Their participation in Cincinnati and Montreal was a warning. He spurted and abdominal discomfort. Which has mediated in Flushing Meadows, their Grand Slam damn far.
Del Potro has been incredible. It's tough playing in these conditions with the abdominal as it was. Given the requirement for a tournament like this. But in any case, we must thank Del Potro, the Spanish recognized the end of the game.
Del Potro, however, rounded off the victory with a crushing home in the third set (3-0), is handled at will in cement. The third Argentine to reach an Open semifinal United States in 2003 after Nalbandian and Guillermo Vilas in 1975 and 1977, whose heritage aims, it has definitely leaning quartet, hitherto inaccessible, the circuit.
Against one of its members, the Swiss Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic, will face at the end of Monday. To recover, his twenty years in the wake of Vilas and become the second South American tournament history to triumph at Flushing Meadows.