The Chilean number two has chosen to prioritize his schedule to recover positions in the world rankings, which is why he will not participate in the Pan American Games. He joins Nicolás Jarry as a victim of the event.
On September 15, The Tennis Federation has defined its names for competition during the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. Already in August, Nicolás Jarry announced his withdrawal, due to the obligation he has to compete in the ATP 500 and the Masters 1000 for the rest of the year. However, it remained to be seen what would happen with Christian Garin.
Finally, after weeks of uncertainty, Gago decided not to attend the mega event that will take place in the country and whose specific setting for this discipline will be the new and very modern Racquet Center at the National Stadium.
The number two in the country He chose to concentrate on the circuit to try to score as many points as possible to return to the top 100 (he is now 102) and thus play ATP tournaments without needing to go through the rankings. From this point of view, his refusal was very probable.
For its part, The Olympic Committee had sent him a letter to convince him to participate in the event, but received no response. However, relations between the tennis player and the entity chaired by Miguel Ángel Mujica remained quite tense, after COCh questions Arica-born decision to leave Tokyo Olympics at last minute back when it was in the top 20.
His last performance for Chile came in the Davis Cup final, where He added a victory against the Swede Leo Borg and a narrow defeat against the Italian Matteo Arnaldi. then subtracted from the series against Canada.
“Christian told us that he felt physical discomfort. This morning we talked again and he told us the same thing, he thought his teammates were in better condition to play. This is why we made the decision to change,” said Nicolas Massú.
The rest of the nominees
The rest of the payroll is made up of Tomás Barrios (silver in Lima 2019), Alejandro Tabilo and Gonzalo Lama , respectively number three, four and five in the country, from the Davis Cup and the Antofagasta Challenger, where León is the only one still competing. The captains are Guillermo Gómez for men and Hans Gildemeister for women.
Meanwhile, among women, those chosen were Daniela Seguel, Fernanda Labraña and Alexa Guarachi current Pan American champion in mixed doubles with Nicolás Jarry.
Pan American tennis offers two places at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In fact, Tomás Barrios managed to qualify for Tokyo in the previous edition thanks to reaching the Pan American final.
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