Tennis dresses in white during its most traditional tournament and the representatives of our country have already scheduled their first duels during the competition which takes place in London.
The most traditional party in world tennis begins this Monday. And the Chileans will arrive as special guests. It’s just that this time Wimbledon will have two of our tennis players in the top 20 of the ATP rankings and, moreover, one of them ended the drought of budding titles that our country was experiencing.
Alejandro Tabilo, now number one in Chile, has just won the ATP in Mallorca and arrives in London with the mark of being the only national representative to triumph on a grass surface, He managed to break his historical ranking and climb to square 19.
Jano will enter the field this Tuesday, July 2 – at six a.m. – against the Briton Dan Evans (61st), who reappears after his withdrawal from the Queen’s Club tournament while playing with the American Brandon Nakashima (the score was tied on a set: 6-4 and 3-6).
After winning the ATP in Mallorca, the first national racket valued the work accomplished in recent months. “It’s been a crazy year, all the support from my team, my girlfriend and the Chileans has been spectacular. The level I have played at is unbelievable,” he said. “My new ranking? For me, it’s unreal, I can’t believe it. I hope I can maintain my level and continue to improve,” he concluded.
Jarry and Garin open national participation
And while Tabilo waits his turn, Nicolás Jarry (20th) and Christian Garin will begin their participation this Monday in the first team. Jarry will face Denis Shapovalov this Monday at six in the morning.
The Canadian occupies box 120 in the ATP rankings, he is left-handed and his last participation in a tournament was in Stuttgart (Germany), where he lost in the round of 16 against the Italian Matteo Berrettini by a double 4-6.
For his part, Garin is already in London since he had to play the qualifiers to reach the main draw. The Arican, who will be in 106th place at the start of the week (he is 113th), registered his name last Thursday, solidly beating the Kazakh Timofey Skatov (229th), in two hours and 33 minutes, by partials of 6-2, 7-5 and 6-3.
For the same, This Monday, Garin will face – also at six in the morning – the former student of Marcelo Ríos, Shang Juncheng (91°) . The Chinese tennis player progressed on the circuit and his last appearance took place in Eastbourne (England), where he sold dearly his defeat against the American Taylor Fritz by 6(5)-7 and 6(5)-7 .
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