While the squealer had no problem beating local Nino Serdarusic and advancing to the finals, the Canadian-born man sold the loss to Bosnian Damir Dzumhur on his debut in the tournament qualifiers.
Chilean tennis players Tomás Barrios (125th) and Alejandro Tabilo (124th) had a bittersweet day on Saturday. in his debut in the Umag ranking, Croatia ATP 250.
The first to go out on the pitch was the chillanejo, who prevailed his best ranking against local Nino Serdarusic (295th) to win 6-4 and 6-2 in 1h40 of play.
At the start of the first set, the Chilean – who had taken a big step on the lawn of Wimbledon a few weeks ago – he built a comfortable lead thanks to two service breaks that quickly put him ahead 4-0 ; However, in the eighth game, the Croatian managed to recover one of the lost games, which in any case was not enough for him to discuss the set, since the criollo sealed the set in his favor by 6-4 .
The second set kept the tone of the previous one, with Barrios far superior to his rival. Indeed, in the third and seventh games, the national took the service of the European, a situation that led him to a comfortable close of the match thanks to a 6-2 in the last set. .
In the next phase, and looking to access the main draw of the competition, the native of Chillán will face the Dutchman Jesper De Jong (176°) match scheduled for Sunday, July 23.
For its part, Alejandro Tabilo -who had just lost last week in the semi-finals of the San Benedetto Challenger- suffer another defeat this time in qualifying for the Croatian tournament, after losing 4-6, 6-4 and 6-7 (4) against the Bosnian Damir Dzumhur (169th) in 2 hours and 39 minutes.
From the beginning, the task was difficult for the man born in Canada, who was at a disadvantage after losing the first set 6-4 characterized by the large number of service interruptions (five in total).
In the second set, Tabilo and Dzumhur maintained the irregularity repeating the number of pauses, but this time It was the Chilean who managed to tip the set in his favor by the same score (6-4) .
The third set was an extension of what has already been seen, although on occasion the definition lasted until the tie-break. As it happens, the Bosnian was more efficient to close the set 7-4 .
It should be remembered that the results of the two national tennis players are added to that obtained – also on Saturday – by Christian Garin (119th) who today at dawn he beat the German Marko Topo (361°) in two sets by partials of 6-3 and 6-4 in the ranking of ATP 500 Hamburg, Germany .
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