No matter the surface Emilio Gomez. The Ecuadorian, 114th in the world, wants to “mark” the court and is already “looking sideways” at the next Australian Open. He has a good chance of going straight into the main draw.
He started his mission well by dominating Juan Pablo Paz in two sets (6-4 and 6-3) in the Temuco Challenger, Chile, and continued the task by beating Tomas Farjat, also from Argentina, 6-1, 7-5. This allows him to climb to 110th place in the live ranking and if he goes to the semifinals he will scratch three new places.
The number 1 seed in the tournament is Facundo Bagnis. Insurance of the trip to Oceania as 93 of the ATP ranking, he calmly fired Tomas Lipovsek Puches and then Juan Bautista Torres.
