The veteran national tennis player came out on top in a close match with his partner Franko Skugor. He thus won his first victory since October 2018.
Throughout his career, Injuries have been the big Achilles heel of Julio Peralta’s career. These same forced him to retire prematurely from tennis and that, when he returned as an outstanding doubles player, they stopped him again. However, at 40, he hesitates to put an end to his professional career, and today he is back. In his second tournament after four years of inactivity, Big Julius (unranked) and Croatian Franko Skugor (119th) qualified for the second round of the Masters 1000 in Rome.
In a close match, the team won 1-6, 6-4 and 12-10 against Bosnian Tomislav Brkic (44th) and Serbian Nikola Cacic (45th). The merit of both He was able to come back from 1-6, 1-4, with a service from the rivals so the victory was very epic.
The victory not only became the Chilean’s first since 2018 when a wayward injury to his right wrist left him out of action, but that will mean he will return to the standings after three years.
For the passage in the quarter-finals, the Chilean-Croatian duo will face the winner of the duel between the team composed of the Russian Aslan Karatsev and the Brazilian Marcelo Melo and the Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.
Garin already has a rival
After the loss of Carlos Alcaraz, recent winner of the Masters 1000 in Madrid, Christian Garin (45th) will have a new rival for the second round in Rome. This is the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori (61st) who entered as lucky loser after the departure of the Spaniards.
The match is scheduled for the third team on court 2, so the duel would be played around 8:30 am Chilean time.
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