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The pair of Colombian tennis players made up of Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah were eliminated in the round of 16 of the US Open after losing 6-3, 3-6, 4-6 with the Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer and the Romanian Horia Tecau and they hand over their crown.
The Colombians began hitting the entrance and it seemed that a match like the debut one was going to take place. Placid and uncomplicated. Rojer He was responsible for the serve, which he did not badly, but his returns were always in the net and when he went ahead on the court, he missed the shot.
Everything was going according to plan and it seemed that Farah I was going to play a good game, but everything was an illusion in the fourth game of the set. Cabal to serve and Farah to the net. Were 40-0 down and on the verge of having the bankruptcy removed in their favor. Farah never closed the angles from the net and was passed all the returns.
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Fortunately for the Colombians, Rojer was not hitting his drive well.
Cabal and Farah they were ahead on the scoreboard more due to errors by their opponents, than due to their own virtues, except for some good definitions of Cabal pushing from the back of the court. There were many errors of Tecau going up to the mesh.
In the end, the Colombians took the first set 6-4. The keys they were in his first service, which had a 77 percent success against 58 percent of the Europeans and the push of Cabal.
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The second set traveled faster. To the colombians They looked a little more tired and less intense than in the first round and that was taken advantage of by Rojer, who squeezed from the bottom to break the serve of Cabala in the second game and from there process the match.
The party turned totally in favor of the Europeans in this sleeve. His accuracy on first serve increased to 80 percent versus 58 percent for Cabal and Farah. That’s why they took the set 6-3 and sent everything to the third and final.
The third and final sleeve, the meeting took a more conservative tint. None were hurt, although there were very long rallies.
But Rojer and Tecau did the damage at the right time. They broke Cabal, with the help of Farah’s failure to close gaps in defense and ended up winning that set 6-4 and eliminating the US Open champions.
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