Yesterday in Monterrey, the first post-00s final in the history of the tournament, the youth showdown was staged, with 19-year-old Fernandez and 20-year-old Osorio facing their first professional match. The two have met three times as teenagers, with Fernandez winning the 2018 and 2019 Junior French Opens, while Osorio, who was once world number one in the ITF Junior, was the winner in the 2018 Junior US Open.
The 2019 Junior French Open champion and the US Open champion fought for a total of 2 hours and 52 minutes, the former stubbornly saved five championship points to reverse victory over No. 5 seed Osorio from Colombia, defended his title with a 10-game winning streak in Monterrey, and pocketed the second WTA Tour singles title of his career.
The Canang rising star currently has a 2-2 record in the Tour finals, both of which were won at Monterrey. The 2020 Acapulco runner-up will be a breakthrough runner-up at last year's US Open.
She said in an interview: "Playing in Mexico makes me feel very satisfied, I always have a wonderful time here, I have a lot of good memories here. I hope to play more games in Mexico and look forward to being here in the next few years. ”
Osorio was the 2021 WTA250 Bogota champion, when the local wild card player topped the no.180 ranking to become the third Colombian champion in the tournament's 23-year history, and has since officially entered the public eye. She later lost to Ann Lee in Tenerife, where she was runners-up in the Monterrey runners-up and propelled her to the top 40 on Monday and now ranks No. 35 at a new career high, with a record of 1 win and 2 losses in the Tour finals. She is also starting to have some followers on social media, with more than 94,000 followers on Instagram and more than 41,000 on Twitter.
Perhaps a more exciting match than this one is a 15-minute episode in the decider. At that time, due to the failure of the lighting equipment due to electricity, Osorio had a 6-5 lead, and the small score was 40-30 to get the match point. When the match resumed, Ossolio was dragged into the seventh by his opponent, Fernandez successfully cashed in on the first championship point, and Colombian players squandered a total of 5 championship points in the decider.
It can be said that Osorio lacked the ability to grasp the key points in this final, but the lights more or less "helped" Fernandez. It is worth mentioning that german player Zverev Jr. once felt that the stadium was dim at the Australian Open one year and let the referee turn on the lights and let the Chinese fans "relish it", and now both have won the nickname related to the lights, although the results of one win and one loss are completely different.
Fernandez said after the win: "Today was a very, very tough game, not only physically or tennis, but mentally. Camilla (Osorio), she is a difficult player to deal with, very cunning, can cut the ball and pick high balls, unpredictable. I am very, very happy to be able to get through these difficult times, to fight hard and to find a solution. Camilla, I wish we had more finals like this, because without her, I don't think there would be anything special about this game, this final. ”
(Source: Tennis House Author: Linghe Xianying)