In the second round of the last Grand Slam of the year, the Chilean lost 3-6, 0-6, 6-4, 2-6 against the world number 20. With the North American tour over, his next appearance will be in the Davis Cup series against Peru.
The passage of Christian Garin (82nd) by the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center ended in a rush. The Chilean couldn’t against Alex De Miñaur (20th) who entered wanting revenge after his battle at Wimbledon and ended up falling 3-6, 0-6, 6-4 and 6-2 . He says goodbye to the US Open in the second round, but with the feeling that the wrist injury may be behind him.
A game that started evenly, but in the eighth game of the first set had its first decisive moment. Garin served 3-4 and served , giving for the moment a feeling of complete equality against the Australian. He saw himself playing in depth, with attitude and a good level of striking. But then came the break. The one who left his rival with a partial match and who was finally enough for the road to start to get complicated.
It was a big emotional blow for Garin, who despite playing well couldn’t match in the decisive moments of the quarter. That feeling must have been swirling around his head when the second set started, because otherwise it’s impossible to explain what happened at that moment on court five of the most important tennis venue in the United States. United.
And it is that in this partial straight he had no chance. Dazed, lost and with a noticeable lack of energy, the decor escaped him from the start and his rival crushed him . There was no resistance, losing that set 0-6 in 34 minutes.
The positive thing was that despite the fact that at that time he could have definitely thrown the game away, but he decided to fight. He pressed when the third set came in decisive moments and managed to take the set almost surprisingly. Those were Garin’s best moments who after losing the partial, managed to come back and take it with a 6-4 break.
Already in the fourth set, the Australian again showed his best version and taking advantage of a fall on the second serve from “Gago”, he managed to secure the match with a resounding 6-2. In this way, De Miñaur takes his revenge after the agonizing round of 16 at Wimbledon, where after winning the first two sets, he ended up falling to the Chilean for a tie-break in the fifth set.
Garin, for his part, is now thinking in red and it is that after the end of the North American tour, his next goal is the Davis Cup series between Chile and Peru which begins on September 18 in Lima. A tournament that can give him the boost he needs to be able to get back into the fight to get back into the world top 50, a place he left on the European clay court. Now, with his healthy body, that goal could happen again.
There, he will be number two in the country, behind Alejandro Tabilo, since defeat in the second round of this US Open will leave him no chance of overtaking the left-hander in the world rankings . In any case, he still managed to add 45 units and climb to 81st place in the world.
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Source: Latercera
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