The national tennis player beat American Tennys Sandgren in over three hours and reached the second round of the North American challenger.
A revitalizing victory was taken by Gonzalo Lama (262nd) in the Tallahassee Challenger 80, which is played on green clay. The national tennis player beat the American Tennys Sandgren (170th) 7-5, 6-7 (3) and 7-6 (6), in three hours and 10 minutes of play, and advanced to the second round of the North American contest.
The duel was very hard, especially because of the rival’s experience, former world number 41, and who made headlines earlier this year for being pulled from the Australian Open for his anti-vaccine stance which kept him from defending the 2020 quarter-finals, as he fell in five sets to Roger Federer and beat Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini along the way.
The Chilean improved a lot with his serve and dominated the points with his forehand. He raised the level quite a bit compared to previous games and managed to overcome the difficult moments. In reality, in the third set he lost a break, but quickly recovered it to take the definition of decisive game where he managed to close it a little early, but despite a double fault in the match pointmanaged to maintain his focus and clinch a very valuable win.
Besides, this joy allows him to continue with the illusion of entering the quality Roland Garros, one of his great goals . With the points added today, he will settle around 252nd in the standings. Should he qualify for the quarter-finals, he would enter the top 245 and be a little closer to the cut-off zone, which will be resolved next week.
His next rival will come out of the duel they will play on Tuesday quality Dutch Gijs Brouwer (274th) and the Japanese Yosuke Watanuki (266th).
In the meantime, this day will also see the debut of the other Chilean in competition, Tomás Barrios (141st), who will face the Indian Ramkumar Ramanathan (179th), around 12:30 p.m.
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Source: Latercera
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