{"id":20709,"date":"2024-02-18T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-for-his-1st-atp-title\/18\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:21:29","slug":"facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-for-his-1st-atp-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-for-his-1st-atp-title\/18\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Facundo Diaz Acosta wins Argentina Open for his 1st ATP title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina &#8212; Wild-card <a data-player-guid=\"e5cfd849-0d01-339f-b3a3-8542c390f1ab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facundo Diaz Acosta<\/a> won his first ATP singles title on Sunday by beating Chile&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"d12d1284-8746-6c26-b7e0-1119b676432c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nicolas Jarry<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the clay-court Argentina Open.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP said that the 23-year-old Argentine became only the second left-handed champion &#8212; after <a data-player-guid=\"f091e8bf-f001-4687-0448-4b009dd966e8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> &#8212; at the Buenos Aires tournament.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz Acosta began the week with a career-high ranking of 87. He is set to rise to No. 59 when the rankings are released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Third-seeded Jarry was chasing his fourth ATP title.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz Acosta&#8217;s victory was easier than expected against Jarry, who struggled to compete after beating defending champion <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is now set to compete at the Rio Open in Brazil, also on clay, which he won in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39554054\/facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-1st-atp-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina &mdash; Wild-card Facundo Diaz Acosta won his first ATP singles title on Sunday by beating Chile&rsquo;s Nicolas Jarry 6-3,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/facundo-diaz-acosta-wins-argentina-open-for-his-1st-atp-title\/18\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2159,5081,1132,811,1034,3505,725,113,508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20711,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions\/20711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}