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Chocolate: The secret and prohibited ingredient of Ugo Carabelli in Miami

The Argentine faces Alex Michelsen on Friday

March 20, 2025

It is paradoxical that the great moment of Camilo Ugo Carabelli is largely due to a radical change in the food for more than a year and a half, and that at the same time the best day of his career at the ATP Masters 1000 level, this Wednesday at the Miami Open presented By Itau, it has been the product of skipping the diet premeditatedly.

Just the day he would look for his first victory in a ‘Main Draw’ in a 1000 Masters and in Lucky Loser condition, he woke up with pain in the shoulder and bad mood.

To remedy the first problem, he made physiotherapy in the tournament played at the Hard Rock Stadium, and also took medicines. To solve the second, he went to the tournament restaurant at the Hard Rock Stadium, and visited the forbidden section, that of the sweets that his nutritionist, which at the same time is his brother, prohibits him from eating if he is in competition.

“I got up more or less. A little bad mood, I was a bit tired, and I ate a chocolate cookie from the restaurant. I didn’t care about anything,” I said later. Hours later, he would celebrate a dramatic 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 Victoria against the American Brandon Holt, who took for a game in 6-2, 5-4.

March 19, 2024, the date of his first victory in a main box on fast tracks. The fortune cookie made its effects. “My body needed it, and I like chocolate a lot, and it makes me in a good mood. I hope it is the amulet for the next game. Tomorrow, it eats me another,” added rival of the American Alex Michelsen on Friday in Miami.

I could eat it before the game, but also even on track. Your body will decide. “In some games in my career I have asked for chocolates to lift a little. Not the energy but humor. I am in favor of the fact that, if my body asks for chocolate to get in a good mood like this case, I pay attention. I do not restrict me if I know that it will be happier to me.”

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The results support their position. But not only his great rise in recent times is based on chocolate. Also in a powerful mix between constant work and luck.

A Lucky Loser also changed his course in Rio de Janeiro, weeks after his title at the Rosario Challenger. To lose in the last round of the ‘qualy’, he first played about rooms and semifinals in the ATP Tour. That result, plus the semifinals in Santiago in their next tournament, explained their promotion earlier this month at No. 61, the top of their career at the PIF ATP Rankings.

Although he will not enter as a favorite to his next ranking and surface duel, it would not be intelligent to rule out another victory of the Argentine considering his streak.

“If I have doubts, I feel safer if I am in dust. I have a game pattern.

Good luck, but also discipline. Every day he has tried to win a little more on this surface, especially on the practice track. From playing points with colleagues to making entire baskets to automate blows and patterns, the current No. 65 of the world is determined to take a quality leap on this surface. And for now he is getting it.

“I feel that I have improved a lot. Not long ago I could not stop playing in front of some rivals in cement, but today I feel competitive against the majority. So I am happy about that. To the extent that I play with more hard rivals like the next one I will continue to improve my game in these conditions.”

Friday will seek to surprise. If concrete, he would get the best ranking victory of his career. One of the sweetest in his life.