The national tennis player fell in straight sets against Italian-Argentinian Luciano Darderi and said goodbye in his first after almost two months without playing due to a broken rib. The fall also puts the Chilean number two in doubt.
The season has not been easy for Christian Garin (124th). The national tennis player has had to deal with a sustained drop in the rankings and also with physical problems. The most recent, a broken rib during the Masters 1000 in Rome, which kept him away from the courts for almost two months.
The situation made him lose ground in the standings, since he was unable to defend the third round of Roland Garros last year and left the 120 best in the world. With this scenario and given the refusal of the Wimbledon organization to give him an invitation, despite having been a quarter-finalist in 2022, he should have been inclined to come back in the Challenger 75 in Milan.
And precisely in the Italian contest, where he appeared as the second seed, He had a bitter start against Italian-Argentinian Luciano Darderi (229th), who beat him 6-3, 7-5 in a match where he didn’t show his best tennis and was quite fragile with his serve, with which he barely he won 59% of the points with his first serve and 43% with his second. They broke it four times (two in each set) and, due to inactivity, he wasn’t quite good at his punches.
Defeat ignites race for number two in Chile, it could work in favor of Tomás Barrios, if he keeps advancing at Wimbledon and if Gago fails to put in a major performance at the Challenger 100 in Iasi next week.
Llama wins in Santa Fe
In Argentina, Gonzalo Lama (421º) Little by little, she rediscovered her tennis and passed the first round of a Challenger for the second week in a row. This time he did it in Santa Fe, after winning a close game against the local Lorenzo Rodríguez (755th), by 6-4, 6-7 (2) and 6-4. Now it will be measured against the trans-Andean Francisco Comesana (248th) who beat his compatriot Guido Iván Justo (733rd) 6-2 and 6-4.
In this same contest They will then face Matías Soto (536º) and Nicolás Villalón (1,280º), for a place in the round of 16. The winner will face the winner of the clash between Brazilian Gustavo Heide (337th) and Ecuadorian Álvaro Guillén (601st).
Track to El Deportivo
Source: Latercera
I’m Rose Brown , a journalist and writer with over 10 years of experience in the news industry. I specialize in covering tennis-related news for Athletistic, a leading sports media website. My writing is highly regarded for its quick turnaround and accuracy, as well as my ability to tell compelling stories about the sport.
