Juan Manuel Cerúndolo continues to shine at the beginning of the season on the Challenger circuit. In Challenger de Tigre 2, he has achieved the second consecutive title (6-3, 2-6, 6-2) at the beginning of 2023, where he has already collected ten victories in a row.
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The grand finale Tiger Challenger 2 once again the protagonist who repeated after the first week in this tournament, John Manuel definitely. The Argentine arrived on the back of a nine-game winning streak and faced a Jasper de Jong which has always shown excellent properties on this type of surface. It was the first clash between the two and one of them was the champion.
Cerúndolo continues unstoppable
The party started with many options for leftovers. Neither of them could hold serve easily and thus saw six straight breaks in the first seven games. From all this exchange of blows, Cerúndolo won and survived 5-2. On his serve, he had two set points in the eighth game, but he didn’t capitalize on one and his rival reached a hopeful break at 3-5. Despite this, Cerúnd0lo responded very well and eventually 6-3 thanks to the second break took the first sleeve.
The other sleeve had more equality. The Argentinian started to take the initiative in the box, but De Jong did better in key moments. Thanks to his break point efficiency, he was able to go up to 5-2. Despite struggling to finally wrap up the set in eight games 6-2 moved the game to the final.
The crowd encouraged the left-handed player and Juanma was going to show his personality. Little by little, he returned to targeting tight tennis from the bottom of the court, despite De Jong improving sensations. He couldn’t win against Cerúndolo 6-2 confirmed their 10th straight win in what has been a fantastic start to the season where he has claimed another Challenger title in Tigre after another great week.
