The Arica native fell 6-2, 4-0 to Tunisia’s Mohamed Aziz Dougaz when he decided to withdraw from the pitch, amid notorious criticism.
Christian Garin enters a well. Bottomless, apparently. The Chilean tennis player, who once reached 17th place in the ATP rankings, no longer raises his head today. From the Tampere Challenger, one of the competitions in which he entered to begin his rise in the world rankings after an absence due to a broken rib, he leaves with a huge disappointment. He leaves the tournament in the round of 16, without the possibility of adding units that were precious to him.
The Tank suffered a painful defeat against Tunisian Mohamed Aziz Dougaz, who is ranked 241 in the world rankings. That is to say, a rival who in theory was perfectly within his reach. However, nothing turned out, as the Tank surely planned. A break in the first match was enough for the African to destabilize the Chilean. Another break, in the eighth game, sealed the inning.
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In the second quarter, things were even worse. Two breaks contributed to closing a not very honorable partial score: 4-0. It was then, when the game was already too high, that the native of Arica decided to end his participation in the match. “I’m going home,” we hear the national racket saying as they head towards the chair, already with the decision adopted.
The annoyance was not accidental. He had committed a double fault which had allowed Aziz to win the fourth game in a row in this set. Even if he still had room to attempt a reaction, it would have been enough for his rival to keep the service to win the match without urgency.
Garin had returned to the circuit earlier this month, at the Milan Challenger. He did so with a loss to Italian-Argentinian Luciano Darderi, who dispatched him in straight sets.
On July 11, he was able to smile. That day, at the Iasi Challenger, he beat Sweden’s Dragos Nicolae Madaras (203rd) 7-5, 6-2, in his first win in two months. In this tournament, he reached the semi-finals, after beating the Italian Ricardo Bonadio (194th). However, the fall against the Spaniard Bernabé Zapata Miralles (53rd), by partials of 2-6, 7-5 and 6-3, prevented him from contesting the definition of the title.
In Finland, he intended to get back to his best, but once again fell through. Now even showing signs of obvious annoyance.
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