Nicolás Jarry makes a successful debut at the Challenger d’Aix-en-Provence

The Chilean defeated experienced Portuguese tennis player Gastao Elías in straight sets and entered the second phase of the French tournament.

Nicolas Jarry (147th) he returned to compete in Europe after several months. This week, he began his participation in the Aix-en-Provence Challenger France, where he successfully passed the first round. He won on his debut against Portuguese Gastao Elías (153rd), 6-3 and 7-6 (4).

The national tennis player comes from a somewhat rocky start to the season, where the highlights were the semi-finals in Mexico City and San Luis Potosí. However, everyone came away feeling like they still hadn’t reached their best. However, on his return to the old continent he showed a good level against an experienced rival.

On French clay, Nico was very supported with his serve, with which he won 92% of the points on the first serve and 67% on the second, which helped him make quite a few differences in this article. On the other hand, it went bankrupt once. It was in the eighth game of the first set, a break that would later allow him to close this set without problems.

In the second set, both kept their serves quite comfortably, so it all ended up being set in the decisive game. The, Jarry managed to be more precise on the return and was able to take a significant advantage to end the match and move on to the second round.

For the passage in the quarter-finals, he will face the eighth seed, Frenchman Corentin Moutet (130th) who beat Briton Liam Broady 6-4, 6-2 (141st).

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Source: Latercera

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