Christian Garin doesn’t look up and waves goodbye in difficulty in Australian Open debut

Christian Garin (88th in the ATP rankings) failed to raise his head for his debut at the Australian Open . For the first round of the Grand Slam, the Chilean tennis player ended up falling in five sets of 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 and 7-5 against the Australian Christopher O’Connell (71st) .

The first set started off positively for the national racket. In the second match, he had already managed to take away the service from the local competitor during the second chance generated. From then on, Gago continued to dominate, having the possibility of breaking in the sixth and eighth Games close the sleeve early. However, the oceanic managed to save them.

In the end, only maintaining his serve allowed the national tennis player to win the first set 6-3. .

Already in the second set, the duel began to look uneven in the fifth game, when O’Connell got his first break in his favor. Of course, he was quickly neutralized by Garin in the next match, tying the duel 3-3.

The duel remained equal until the 12th match. When Garin tried to force the decisive game the 71st in the world tightened his game and made the Chilean suffer by seeing how he lost his serve and the second set 7-5 .

Of course, in the third, the former world number 17 once again showed confidence by breaking from the start. Even though he had more chances, the Australian ended up defending well and Garin took the advantage again, take the set 6-4 .

In the fourth round, Garin started to lose his way. This effort ended up having harmful consequences. Although he went bankrupt at the beginning, he could not confirm it. Then the fourth and the sixth Games suffered further service losses which allowed O’Connell to tie the duel 6-1 .

Already in the final set, the duel ended up leaning towards the home team, who dealt the first blow by resuming Gago’s serve in the fifth game. Later, in the tenth GamesGarin managed to get it back, but then couldn’t confirm it, leaving him trailing 6-5.

In this way, the only thing the Chilean could do was get the break to force the definition to the extreme. decisive game and he almost succeeded. The national tennis player managed to get a break point, but he couldn’t take advantage of it and O’Connell ended up winning the set 7-5, the match and a place in the second round of the Grand Slam .

After the match, Christian Garin gave his impressions of the defeat. “The second set was more complicated for me than necessary because I had it well under control, I did a to break very stupid and then the game changes a lot, it becomes a battle “, he began, pointing Sporty .

“I think the second set was a little bit beyond me because I should have won it. . I dominated quite comfortably and lost two Games quickly and then I have a breaking point in a game that makes me a ace, throw the serve and the net, two lines. These are games that sometimes don’t have much explanation and that hurts a lot, but let’s continue,” he added.

In this way, the Australian Open ends up with two Chileans. Nicolás Jarry, who has just had one of the best seasons of his career , reaching 18th place in the world. He will have to face the Italian Flavio Cobolli (95th), from qualifying.

On another side, Alejandro Tabilo must make his debut against the American Aleksandar Kovacevic (103rd) this comes from the qualifying rounds.