The three national tennis players will be active this week and very few points separate them in the standings. Moreover, they are looking askance at the Davis Cup in September.
Chilean men’s tennis is experiencing the best moment of the last 15 years. Since the retirement of Fernando González and Nicolás Massú, such an auspicious gift has not been seen. With Nicolás Jarry in the world top 30 and Tomás Barrios, Christian Garin and Alejandro Tabilo are fighting hard to get into the top 100.
This week they will live a new battle to enter this group. These last three players will play challengers in Europe, looking for fundamental points to also become the second best racquet in the country. at the handover on Monday July 16 (tomorrow there is no classification due to the development of Wimbledon). The definition will be heart attack because the three are separated by very few points.
Indeed, they are only separated by 33 units in the ranking. Namely, with what was added this week at Wimbledon, where he reached the second round after overcoming the quality, Barrios has 519 and is temporarily located 119th ; while Garin, who lost on his Milan Challenger debut, has 498 and is 127th. As, Tabilo accumulates 486 and climbs to 130º thanks to the Kahrlsruhe Challenger title he won on Sunday.
The Chilean Route
This week, Tomás Barrios and Alejandro Tabilo will risk their luck on clay at the Challenger 100 in Trieste. There The chillanejo will make his debut against Bulgarian Dimitar Kuzmanov (184th) while the Toronto native left-hander will face the Argentinian Genaro Olivieri (179th) . The two Chileans could only face each other in the final of the Italian competition.
Unlike his compatriots, Christian Garin has chosen this week to compete in the Challenger 100 in Iasi, Romania. There he will face the nationalized Romanian Swede on his debut Dragos Nicolas Madaras (203rd). Gago is in his set-up after a rib fracture which sidelined him for almost two months from the circuit and which made him leave the top 100.
In any case, the position of the four best national tennis players is pending, since in the ranking of the season Jarry is 19th, Barrios is 76th, Garin is 87th and Tabilo is 93rd therefore there is a real possibility that Chile will end the season with four players in the top 100. For this, what they do in the second part of the season on the hard court is essential, same surface where the final stages of the Davis Cup will be played.
One of the happiest in this scenario is Nicolás Massú, captain of the team. Chile are the only South American country ranked in the top 16 in the world and between September 12 and 17 they will face Sweden, Italy and Canada in the group stage in Bologna. to claim a place in the quarter-finals to be held in Malaga in November.
Of course, the double Olympic champion will not have the easy task, since he will have to define who will be the second player in singles of the different series he will have to face.
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