Acapulco, Guerrero, March 2.- Juan Martín del Potro got to the final. Delpo got her place for the first time in the final of Abierto Mexicano Telcel, presented by HSBC, when he won over Alexander Zverev 6-4 and 6-2,

Del Potro is the fourth Argentinian to be placed in a final, after Juan Ignacio Chela, Agustín Calleri and David Nalbandián. Chela and Calleri lifted the trophy.

Delpo is fighting for his first title of the year.

Zverev played with a bandage on his left knee from the fifth game of the first set, when he received medical attention. “I felt a slight pain in the second game, and it was only when I jumped to serve, with the bandage I felt a little better but at the end of the second set it began to hurt more and more and in the last game I could not continue,” he said. Sascha
Juan Martín said he was happy to have beaten one of the best on the circuit.

“I’m happy to play my first final in Acapulco, which is a tournament that I really like to play and where I feel good on and off the court, I’m a little tired because I’ve played with very good players, but I hope that tomorrow the body Answer me, “Delpo confided.

In the initial set, on the third game he got his first chance to break Del Potro, he did not let it go and he went 2-1 and the next game confirmed the break. Zverev showed a bit of despair in the fifth game, and for a moment the alarms went off, when with the score 40-30 the German headed towards his bench and when he sat down he touched his left knee. It was necessary to get medical attention and Zverev returned to the field with a bandage in the area. Alexander focused and took the game (2-3).

On the second Del Potro broke in the third game. Zverev pulled out his frustration by throwing the racket to the floor, but this time he broke it and then throw it to the public.

The fifth game lasted six minutes, until Sascha was able to put the 2-3 with a lot of effort, Juan Martín answered everything Zverev sent him.

Now he will face South African Kevin Anderson, against whom he has a 6-0 record, all of them in hard court. The most recent confrontation was in the first round of the 2017 Delray Beach tournament, so he has a great opportunity to become Acapulco’s king for the first time.

Acapulco, Guerrero, March 2nd. The Swiss Stefanie Voegele will play for the first time a final of a WTA tournament, after beating Rebecca Peterson 6-4, 7-6 (5) at Abierto Mexicano Telcel, presented by HSBC.

“It will be my first WTA final, I am very happy, first to play a semi-final and now to reach the final, Lesia is a very strong player, she won the last tournament here and we are going to see what happens tomorrow. difficult for me, but I’m very happy to have won, “Voegele said.

Stefanie, ranked 183 of WTA could not keep the intensity she had at the start of the game she was nervous of playing her second semifinal of her career.

Peterson, place 139 of the world circuit, broke her service on three occasions and Voegele did the same in two ocassions during the first set.

This caused Stefanie to be more dominant in the service, such as in the game . The Swedish lost three points with her first service in addition one point per serve in the last two games.

For the second set, Stefanie remained firm in her game during decisive moments and started the second set that ended in her favor, after some unforced errors threatened to take away the victory. Finally, Voegele culminated with six aces and she won two out of four break points.

Rebecca came to the main draw of this tournament thanks to last weekend´s quali round.
After this result, Stefanie will face in the final Lesia Tsurenko, current champion of this tournament. Which will be held at 6 pm this Saturday.

On the way to the final, Voegele defeated the German Tatjana Maria, then repeated the dose with the Greek Maria Sakkari and finally the American Sloane Stephens, the first seed of the tournament.

Acapulco, Guerrero, March 1st.- Rebecca Peterson didnt missed any chance to get into the ain draw of Abierto Mexicano Telcel, presented by HSBC. Now she surprised Shuai Zhang, fourth seed of the tournament and won her intwo 6-2 and 6-1 getting a ticket to the semi finals.

Peterson had three aces, four double faults and was 67 percent effective in her first service against Zhang.

Previously, the Chinese tennis player and Peterson had met once, winning it Shuai, last year in Honolulu.

Rebecca, got one of the six tickets to semis, showing she is not intimidated bye anyone, she even left out The olympic champion Monica Puig.

Peterson will face Stefanie Voegele, who gave the surprise after eliminating the first seed of the tournament, Sloane Stephens, by 6-4, 5-7 and 6-2.

Stefanie Voegele did not miss the four previous duels against Stephens, which took the victory on three occasions.

Juan Martín will play for the first time in the semifinals of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, presented by HSBC

Acapulco, Guerrero, March 1^st .- Juan Martin del Potro endorsed his position as one of the favorites to stay with the championshiop of Abierto Mexicano Telcel, presented by HSBC in its XXV anniversary, after defeating Dominic Thiem,(champion of 2016’s edition) with a score of 6-2 and 7-6 (7).

“I’m happy to reach my first semifinal in Acapulco, I had ups and downs in the second set and he took advantage of it very well, it was a great match, especially the second set was complicated, but in the last points I could win”, celebrated the Argentine

Next he will face Alexander Zverev. In theprevious match between them, the victory corresponded to Delpo (Masters of Shanghai 2017), who is  also playing its second semifinal of the season, after the one in Auckland. In 2017 La Torre de Tandil succumbed in the second round to Novak Djokovic.

“The match tomorrow I see it more difficult, it is a complicated picture, it is rare to play against a top ten in the quarterfinals in an ATP 500 and even more so in a semifinal I touch you with Zverev, that speaks of the good level of the tournament” he explained.

Surprisingly Del Potro, sixth seed, had an easy first round more than expected. Thiem, third favorite, resisted the attacks of Juan Martín.

In the following part an early break was enough for the Argentinean to walk calmly, despite the fact that Thiem didn´t gave up his serve.

Del Potro passed the test and came to serve for the game with the score 5-4. With a big turn and an error by Delpo, Thiem put it 0-30. At the next point Juan Martin sent the ball down the baseline to give away three break points to the Austrian, who missed the first, but not the next to level the score to five games per side when Del Potro crashed the ball into the net .

The fans were happy because that meant the match would go on. And the second set had to be defined in the tie break. In a give and take of breaks Thiem had the opportunity to send the match to the third, but Del Potro recovered and with a double fault was eliminated from the tournament