The young man Mikael Ymer starred in a surprising comeback against Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, fifteenth seeded, and won 7-5 and 6-3 in the semifinal from the Wisnton-Salem Open to become the first Swede to reach an ATP Tour final in a decade.
His rival in the final in which there will be no seeded – Alcaraz was the last one left- it will be Ilya Ivashka, who defeated Finn Emil Ruusuvuori 6-2, 6-1 in the other semi-final and will seek to become the first Belarusian ATP champion since 2003 when Max Mirnyi won the singles title in Rotterdam.
The triumph of Ymer, 22, came in a surprising way after coming back from an adverse score of 3-5 in the first set with seven straight games to win it 7-5 and then go 3-0 in the second, which was also awarded.
“With the way he plays, exhausting him is more or less the only option, because he is very aggressive.“Ymer said.” I think I executed the plan quite well. “
Alcaraz, 18, who was playing his third semifinals of the tour, the first on hard court, He could not continue in the fight for his second ATP title, nor could he take revenge for the defeat he had already suffered in the last Australian Open tournament against Ymer.
Although had a brilliant and dominant start to the game, then fell into the trap of long rallies that Ymer proposed to him and that was when he began to make unforced errors that cost him the game.
Despite the defeat, Alcaraz arrives at his first US Open full of morals and will have the first trial by fire in the opening round when he meets England’s Cameron Norrie, twenty-sixth seeded.