The national tennis player has exceeded his ceiling in the four major tournaments he has played this year, which has allowed him to continue to climb the rankings and hope to reach the top 20 in the short term.
The 2023 season was arguably the best of the career of Nicolas Jarry . In January, the national tennis player was ranked 155th in the world rankings. However, after participating in the US Open, he will reach the best position of his career, because while waiting for some results, he temporarily appears in the 21st position of the list.
Earlier this year, Nico entered the Australian Open qualifiers, where he never made it past the first round. In fact, in 2018 and 2019 it was the only time he participated, while in the 2020 edition he couldn’t. due to the provisional suspension for doping due to cross-contamination which has sidelined him all season.
After eleven months of inactivity and no points in the ranking, which forced him to start from scratch, the return to Oceania only took place this year, where after passing the previous round He accounted for Serbian Miomi Kecmanovic (27th) then fell in the second round against American Ben Shelton (89th).
After posting his all-time best performance in Melbourne, Nico enjoyed a major confidence boost as he played a key role in the Davis Cup triumph over Kazakhstan and then he reached the semi-finals of the ATP 500 in Rio and won the title at the ATP 250 in Santiago.
With this formidable background, the pupil of Juan Ozón made the leap into the top 60 before facing the European tour on clay. There, the week before Roland Garros, He clinched the ATP 250 crown in Geneva to enter the world top 40.
break down obstacles
As in Australia, the best national racket has ever managed to win a main draw game. He participated in 2017, 2018 and 2019, while last year he was eliminated in the last round of the quality. However, This year he managed to reach the round of 16, after beating Hugo Dellien (160th), Tommy Paul (17th) and Marcos Girón (75th) before being eliminated by Casper Ruud (4th), finally finalist of the contest.
Upon his return to Wimbledon, Jarry was challenged to improve on his second-round ceiling, reached in 2018. He did it thanks to his victories over Marco Cecchinato (89th) and Jason Kubler (77th). On the third lap, he lost a little against world number one then champion in London, Carlos Alcaraz, who won 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 and 7-5.
Finally, at the US Open, the man from Santiago also surpassed what he had done before, namely the second round achieved in 2018. In New York reported on young players Luca van Assche (64th) and Alex Michelsen (127th) to fall without appeal against the Australian Álex de Miñaur (13th).
In short, in this 2023, Nicolas managed to quadruple his number of victories in majors because at the beginning of the year he had only two victories, so, with the eight victories obtained this season, he now has a respectable record in this kind of tournament.
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