The Arican could not continue showing the improvement in his tennis and said goodbye to Benjamin Hassan with partials of 6-3 and 6-1.
Christian Garin (104th ATP) said goodbye to the Challenger in Girona, Spain. The Chilean tennis player fell against the 29-year-old Lebanese-German, Benjamin Hassan (156th ATP), who reached the top eight stage without dropping a single championship set and accumulating just two hours and 28 minutes on court considerably less time than in Chile.
Garin had a level far from the previous rounds and did not have the opportunity to impose his conditions. It was a victory for Hassan by partials of 6-3 and 6-1 in a little over an hour and twenty of dispute.
The Chilean only won 50% of the points with his first serve and did not take advantage of any of the five break points in his favor. Unlike his rival, who was 79% effective on his initial kick and was able to break it four times.
The truth is that Garin managed to show his best version of the season. The national team had managed to reach the quarter-finals of a tournament after four months of drought without reaching this stage. He did so by beating the Portuguese Henrique Rocha (220th ATP) in the first round in sets of 4-6 6-3 and 7-6(9) in a battle that lasted more than three hours. In the second round, he was stronger, needing only two sets to defeat the American Nicolás Moreno de Alborán (158th) by 7-6(2), 6-3.
With two consecutive victories in the main draw of a tournament for the first time this season (previously, he had only reached it during the Phoenix Challenger qualifications), also being the third seed in the competition, it seemed that the Arican would finally be able to assert his level and reach the final stages of a competition . However, His aspirations were stopped dead in their tracks.
With this result, the “Tanque” fell to 112th place in the live ranking, being momentarily overtaken by Tomás Barrios as the third highest placed Chilean in the world ranking. The truth is that the native of Arica will have to raise his head as quickly as possible, since his next challenge, the ATP 250 of Estoril (which this year holds its last edition), in Portugal, will begin next Wednesday, April 3 And “Gago” is entered in the main draw.
His performance in this tournament will be decisive for his position in the world rankings. For the clay court circuit, he defended 45 points at the ATP 250 in Houston and 45 at the Munich tournament. In addition, he has units in the Masters 1000 in Rome (45) and Madrid (45), for which his presence in the main draw is practically excluded (which complicates things even more). Garin defends a total of 180 points until Roland Garros.
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