Christian Garin’s radical decision after the difficult moment he is experiencing in tennis

The elimination in the first round of the Chile Open once again showed the complex moment that Christian Garin (87th ATP) is experiencing on the circuit. The northerner has only one victory this season and after his defeat against Tomás Barrios at the ATP in Santiago, he spoke directly.

“I don’t know what to say, I don’t have a strategy. I try every day, I get up, I train, I play with the pain, it doesn’t go away. It’s difficult, it’s frustrating, I don’t know what’s happening, I can’t find myself. I play horribly. I ache all over. No matter how much I try, it doesn’t work. “That things aren’t working out, that playing so badly, it’s depressing,” was one of the harshest statements of an evening taking place today.

Monday evening, the Nationale chose to close its social networks. His Instagram profile now contains no posts or photos. Digital silence which appears as a “suggestion from its new technical team”, according to the medium clay . This would also be accompanied by the fact that in the future there will be a person responsible for its content, just like Nicolás Jarry does.

The decision is surprising, especially because at the start of the year the Chilean had mentioned that he was much calmer mentally. In fact, in an interview with El Deportivo before his Australian Open debut, he spoke about this and the problems he has had in the past: “I think the tennis life is super unstable in terms of emotions, depressions and everything. I’ve been doing this for several years now and I feel like I’m finding a way to deal with this better. This season has helped me a lot to organize myself in every way, to heal my wounds again, to review what I really want. I don’t know when the results will come, I hope soon, but it may take some time because it’s a process and processes are like that,” he admitted.

Now everything seems to be attacking him again. Defeats in the first round at the Australian Open, the Punta del Este Challenger, the Córdoba Open and the Chilean Open mark a season that he only managed to celebrate in Rio de Janeiro, where he lost in the second match. Additionally, he did not play any points in the Davis Cup series against Peru.

This complex moment is now increased by his absence during the Indian Wells qualifiers. Although there is no official confirmation of the reasons yet, it is most likely that the physical problems he spoke about in Santiago led to him being eliminated from the first Masters 1000 of the year. A situation which will practically remove him from the Top 100, since he defended the round of 16.

Of course, even though Garin won’t be there, there will be national representation in California. Nicolás Jarry and Alejandro Tabilo will both be looking to make a splash following their stint in South America and they already know their way around the box.

The finalist of the Chile Open will make his debut this Wednesday or Thursday against the Russian Pavel Kotov (67th), while Jarry will do it on Friday or Saturday, since he passed the first round being pre-classified. In this match, a rival awaits the match between the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (58th) and the Australian Alexei Popyrin (41st).