Gstaad ATP: Garin falls in the first round and Jarry advances in combat

A day of shadows and lights for the Chileans at the Gstaad ATP. If Nicolás Jarry (118th) delivered a very tough match against the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro (72nd) and he beat him 6-7(9), 7-6(4) and 7-6(6) Christian Garin could not do the same and fell on Yannick Hanfmann (152nd) for partial 6-3 and 6-4 . In this way, the man from Santiago will be the only national in the second round of the tournament which takes place in Sweden.

In Garin’s case, the first round was a complex game. Perhaps the biggest lesson is that the second national racket (this Monday he was overtaken by Alejandro Tabilo in the world rankings) had seven break chances in the first set, but failed to convert any . This advantage ended up preventing him from taking control of the match, giving his rival a big chance to take the partial.

Already in the second set the break options did not appear and he ended up losing 6-3 and 6-4 in 1 hour and 31 minutes of play. A bad result if you think that the Chilean was the sixth seeded in the tournament and that he is at a time when you need to add points urgently if you don’t want to have to play qualifying for most tournaments. In fact, it’s highly likely that for the Masters 1000 in Toronto and Cincinnati, the North American will have to avoid qualifying to enter the main draw.

If he still has to play doubles with the Argentinian Tomás Etcheverry, Gago must already be thinking about his next challenge, the Kitzbuhel ATP 500 , which will be the last tournament he will play in this little tour on clay which takes place between Wimbledon and the US Open. After passing through Austria, the Chilean will travel to North America to face his preparation for the last big of the year.

On the other hand, what Jarry experienced was totally different. The former world 38, played an intelligent match and relied on his serve as usual to defeat his rival. In total, he landed 37 aces in a match that ended up defining all three sets in tie-breaks.

A match where he had to fight hard, since he started to lose the first set, but he managed to recover with his service to never lose control of the match, being the point to improve, and the one that will be needed probably review, the lack of efficiency in his chances of break.

In today’s game against Monteiro, Jarry had eleven break options, but took advantage of none , overstretching the match. The end result was 6-7(9), 7-6(4) and 7-6(6) which helped the Chilean to climb to 116th place on the planet and to face none other than the executioner of Garin in the first round, Yannick Hanfmann.

With this, the national tennis player manages to break a barrier that he had since February 2021, since this It will be the first time since the Cordoba Open 2021 that he will be installed in the second round of an ATP tournament. . Over the past two seasons, Jarry has regularly played in challenger tournaments, unsuccessfully breaking into the main draws at 250 tournaments.