The country’s number one is waiting for a rival and in the third phase could collide with the world number two in the second Masters 1000 of the season.
After three weeks without playing following his early elimination at ATP 250 in Santiago, Christian Garin returns to the circuit. This time he does it with the help of a new coach, Spaniard Pepe Vendrell, number 13 in his career. With him, he will seek to regain the level he had before the pandemic. The first stop will be the Masters 1000 in Miami, where he went out in the first round.
For two weeks, the Tank has been working alongside its new coach two weeks ago, enjoying his marginalization from the Davis Cup and Indian Wells, product of right shoulder supraspinatus tendinopathy.
In the second round, the national tennis player will face the winner of the duel between the Hispanic Pedro Martínez (47th), champion of the Chile Open, and the German Jan-Lennard Struff (56th). Against the two rivals, he does not record defeats. He has beaten the former on each of the three occasions they have met, most recently at this year’s Australian Open when he beat the German in the group stage of the Cup final Davis 2019.
To pass this first hurdle, Arica-born tennis player could face world number two Russian Daniil Medvedev who is also the first seed in the tournament that Novak Djokovic couldn’t play because he wasn’t vaccinated.
In the rest of the semester, Garin must revalidate 1,061 points, therefore, it is essential to add as many as possible to dampen this defense.
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Source: Latercera
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