The national tennis player will go for his second challenger title tomorrow after beating Argentina’s Gonzalo Villanueva in a close match. If he wins, he will climb to 127th place.
An invigorating week is coming Tomás Barrios (145th) in the Challenger 80 in Salvador de Bahía. The national tennis player took part in the final of the contest and will ensure the highest ranking of your career. In a duel that could have ended even before the chillanejo He beat Argentinian Gonzalo Villanueva (330th) in three sets, 6-7 (0), 6-3, 6-4.
Guillermo Gómez’s pupil got off to a good start by breaking the transandino’s serve, but he was unable to consolidate this advantage, which allowed his rival to recover this break in the tenth game and then take the set for decisive game. The, The Chilean committed numerous unforced errors and gave up the tiebreaker to zero.
Despite the blow he suffered losing the opening round, Barrios managed to recover. He attacked the net a lot and got bothered with shots from deep. That allowed him to break his rival’s serve and then close the quarter with great solvency in the heat and humidity of the popular Brazilian city.
The beginning of the last chapter could not have been better, since from the start he made a Pause which gave him some air. Meanwhile, a downpour forced the game to stop for almost 10 minutes. Then Villanueva recovered the break in the sixth game, putting some uncertainty in the outcome. The Chilean had to face difficult moments, but he had enough mental strength to resist and achieve another break in ninth. Game, to then condemn the duel with his service.
For the title, Tomás Barrios will face the winner of the match between the Portuguese Joao Domingues (389th) and Argentinian Renzo Olivo (188th). If he is champion, he will have his second challenger and will enter position 127 of the leaderboard . Likewise, he has already secured his best position, since with his passage to the final, he will be in position 134.
Jarry can’t before the world’s 70
Nicolás Jarry (147th ATP) could not exceed the ceiling of semi-finals he had this season. He fell this time in the round of 16 of the Challenger 100 in Aix-en-Provence against the Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (70th), by 6-7(8), 7-6(2) and 7-6(5), in a duel defined by small details.
The national tennis player lost in a match that lasted three hours and 13 minutes, and in which he scored no less than 23 ace. Both barely broke their serve once in the final set and it was the number one seeded Frenchman who was better in the tiebreaker that gave him victory.
It was the first contest that the country’s number three contested in Europe before qualifying for Roland Garros, where he will probably be the top seed, since With what he has achieved this week, he will move up about 11 places in the world rankings.
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Source: Latercera
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