Ceru, in duplicate in Madrid: Juan Manuel went down to Felix and also signs R3 | ATP Tour

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Ceru, in duplicate in Madrid: Juan Manuel went down to Felix and also signs R3

The youngest of the brothers closing it comes from the previous one and stopped the current vice -champion in the Magic Box

April 25, 2025

Juan Manuel chering him smiles and squeezes his fist, but does not emit any other ampulous gesture. His was always sobriety, and in the mutual Madrid Open 2025 he is not only again, but he is putting an improved version as a tennis player, to be a protagonist again in the most important stages of the Tour.

Now, on the Arantxa Sánchez court of the ATP Masters 1000 of Madrid, the Argentine displayed a very high level and defeated the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, finalist of the last edition of the tournament, to get into the third round after almost two hours of play with a 7-6 (5) and 6-4 win, in which he is already the best triumph of his young race, to join his brother Francisco in the third Round.

“It’s amazing, I am very happy for my first victory against a top 20. The best of my career. I played incredible, I come from playing three good games,” said “La Compu”, as his colleagues nicknamed, at the foot of the court at the end of his match versus the last champion in Adelaida and Montpellier.

To close it, 23, it is also being able to continue stretching a great week coming from the previous one, after moving to the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild and the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp, and the Estaodunidense Aleksandar Kovacevic and Auger-Aliassime already in the main box.

However, much has happened since the Argentine was able to win his first ATP Tour trophy at age 19 at Córdoba Open (in the first event of that category he played in his career). In fact, the youngest of the cerú would become the top100 of the PIF ATP Rankings Argentine youngest since Juan Martín del Potro.

After years with physical discomfort that took off filming and sent, closing it had to start again, in addition to doing a great physical work. The love for tennis and enjoying every moment, no matter the magnitude of the circumstance, was always there, or at least that has been his approach.

“I am with my coach in the box and behind all my friends and family who live here. It’s amazing, it’s very exciting. They are not the world of tennis world, so they get more excited. They were screaming a lot, it is very nice,” he said, directed by Sebastián Prieto, former coach of the Potro and the British Dan Evans, in recent years.

At the moment, closing it continues to show a tennis according to the conditions, looking for openings and trying to send with the serve. Before Felix, he signed five ACES and connected 74% of first services, of which he could keep 79% of the points, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

Now, closing it will have another weight challenge before the old No. 1 of the world Daniil Medvedev, and will surely go again for a new surprise.