With feat included: Garin overturns a two-set deficit against Alex de Miñaur and advances to Wimbledon quarter-finals

Christian Garin struggled to party at Wimbledon. The first national racket had to fight with everything to turn things around and win 2-6, 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-4 and 7-6(6) against Alex de Miñaur .

The match started complicated for Garin from the beginning. The Chilean ended up losing his first serve against the Australian and fought hard to try and win it back in the second game. There, he had four options to achieve this. However, De Miñaur put up with everything and ended up confirming what had been done in the first Game go ahead 2-0.

The fight continued even until the seventh Gamewhen the oceanic managed to get and specify a single break option thatwhich allowed him to close the first quarter with his serve 6-2 .

In the second set, Garin kept fighting to tie the game. Although he gave up his serve in the third game, he managed to win it back in the sixth. But the joy could not be complete, because in the sequel De Miñaur struck the national tennis player’s mind again with another break and a 5-3 lead after confirming it.

In any case, closing the set was not easy for the oceanic, as he denied him the chance to close it, recovering the loss of serve and leaving the partial tied at 5-5. But the Australian was not for the complications. he took Garin’s serve and closed the game 7-5 .

Already in the third, the start was much stronger for Garin. After breaking him in the second game and confirming what he had achieved, he took a 3-0 lead. Of course, the irregularity that had marked the previous sets reappeared and De Miñaur further complicated Gago by recovering the break in the fifth. Game.

In the end, the third set had to be defined in the decisive game . In this case, Garin was the most accurate and ended up taking the partial 7-6 (3). .

In the fourth, Gago took advantage of the momentum to start by breaking his rival’s serve, which gave him a margin of calm to face the rest of the match. And the image was better when, in the seventh game, he got another break that left him with a 5-2 lead and with the possibility of taking the set with his serve.

De Miñaur did not surrender and managed to discount. First break the Chilean then hold his serve. However, Garin still had the chance to close the set on serve in the tenth. Game getting it in the end by 6-4 and stretching the match until the fifth set .

The emotional boost of leveling the match helped Garin break down his rival early in the final set, but errors in serve allowed De Miñaur to level the duel immediately.

The definition remained even until the tenth game, when the oceanic managed to have a match point in his favor that Garin defended with everything to stay at 40 tied and then take his serve.

Then came the moment of attack for the Chilean, who managed to have two break points which he ultimately could not take advantage of, leaving the match 6-5 in favor of the Australian with Gago serving to force the tie brake, case in which the match should have been defined at the end and in which Garin ended up winning 7-6 (6) .

With this victory, Christian Garin will have to face the Australian Nick Kyrgios (40th) in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, who beat the American Brandon Nakashima (56th) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2), 3 -6 and 6- 2.

The last time a Chilean had reached this instance dates back to the 2005 edition . Over there, Fernando González entered the quarter-finals after beating Russian Mikhail Youzhny . And in the duel for the passage to the semi-finals, La Reina’s Bombardero fell to then No. 1 Roger Federer 7-5, 6-2, 7-6(2) .