Sebastián Baéz traces, raises flight and will look for the two -time championship in Rio | ATP Tour

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Baéz traces, raises flight and will look for the two -time championship in Rio

The Argentine will be measured before Muller by the title

February 22, 2025

Sebastián Báez never gives up. No matter how adverse the development of a match, the defending champion Dell Rio Open present has Claro always has more to say.

Now, the Argentine managed to overcome an adverse start Ant its compatriot Camilo Ugo Carabelli and won 3-6, 6-1 and 6-1 in an hour and 44 minutes of play to become the third player that reaches multiple finals in the History of the tournament, after Diego Schwartzman (champion in 2018, runner -up in 2022) and Carlos Alcaraz (champion in 2022, runner -up in 2023).

“I am very proud, because I wasn’t feeling good and I had to recover. Doing it here in Rio is perfect for me,” said the winner. “It’s always difficult to play against someone you know yourself, he was doing very well,” he added.

After a somewhat dubitative and disconnected first set and with a Ugo showing his consistency of the whole week, Báez accelerated again from the beginning of the second manga, when I became master and lord of the encounter and did not look back again. With 7 aces and 26 winning shots, Báez shone again and goes again for everything.

Báez, thus, will look for something that no player could achieve before: win the river title twice. Meanwhile, Báez, champion last year, has a winning streak of nine games in Rio and for the second time he will play the final of the same ATP Tour event for the second time, after Santiago. For the 24-year-old Argentine will be his 9th ATP Tour Final (6-2), 5th in South America (3-1) and 2nd at ATP 500 level.

For the title, Báez will be measured before the Frenchman Alexandre Muller, who also could against Francisco Comesaña signing a battle 7-5 and 6-7 (3) and 6-3 after almost three hours of the game. The frarenés now improves its 9-2 brand in ATP Tour games in the 2025 season in which it already signed a title and now another end.

The Argentine left with a smile and climbs from No. 67 of the PIF ATP Live Ranking, already ensuring its first irruption in the Top 70 from Monday.