Cordoban tennis player Pedro Cachín, who starred in the most outstanding year of his career with four Challengers titles, a good stint at the US Open and an improvement of almost 200 positions in the world ranking, admitted today that “everything was positive” and stressed that the 2022 season went “better than I had planned.”
“Everything was positive this year, I honestly didn’t think it could go so well if they asked me about it in January or February when the results weren’t given. I started lifting from April, everything went better than I had planned,” he analyzed. the tennis player born in Bell Ville 27 years ago, in dialogue with Télam.
Cachín, based in Barcelona since 2014, attended Télam from Murcia, where he is playing an Interclub tournament, and in addition to reviewing his great season, he anticipated that he dreams of continuing to take valuable steps in 2023.
“When the year began I was in 245th place and I had set myself the goal of playing the Australian Open. I went to Melbourne and I did not pass the classification but it helped me to be in a great tournament and trust my tennis more,” said the tennis player. of Bellville.
“I had some ups and downs until the end of March when I reached the final in the Marbella Challenger, there I realized that I was at the level, that I could compete, I took it as an opportunity that was being given to me to jump”, revealed Cachín, who In that tournament he defeated, among others, the Austrian Dominic Thiem, the German Philip Kohlschreiber and the Spanish Pablo Andújar, before falling in the final against the local Jaume Munar.
His improvement became noticeable when he won the Challengers in Madrid and Prague, his first two titles in a year in which he also won the tournaments in Todi, Italy, and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, and also played three other finals. of the category (Marbella, Lyon and Verona).
“I found a very good competitive path, winning in Madrid and Prague gave me so much confidence that later I achieved good results even playing badly. I gained a lot of momentum and that allowed me to set new goals on the circuit”, analyzed Cachín.
Those goals that he set for himself allowed him to play two Grand Slams, the first at Roland Garros after qualifying, and then at the US Open when he showed his best repertoire to eliminate the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene and the American Brandon Holt, before falling in the third round against Frenchman Corentin Moutet.
“At Roland Garros I entered as a ‘lucky loser’, I won one match and lost the other, but I understood the magnitude of playing in these tournaments. At the US Open I did well but I found myself with a rival who was having a great day” , he recalled in reference to Moutet.
The tennis player revealed keys to his game that reported him jumping from position 245 with which he started the year to 55 that he currently occupies, that is, with an improvement of 190 squares.
“Now I have more confidence in my tennis and I got a very big emotional boost. Technically, I became a more aggressive player and I improved my serve a lot, that allowed me to get out of trouble, save points and make my rivals see that I was hard to beat me”, explained the tennis player, who will return to his city by the end of the year.
Cachín’s good performances did not go unnoticed by Guillermo Coria, the captain of the Argentine Davis Cup team who considered him at the time to define the formation of five tennis players who played the 2022 Finals in Bologna in Group C together with the host Italy , Croatia and Sweden.
“I spoke with Guillermo, but not about the possibility of joining the team, but he congratulated me on my results. Of course, playing the Davis Cup would be something fascinating, living that experience with an entire country pending is something that I would really like,” he revealed. Cachin.
The native of Bellville is a fan of Davis, in fact in 2016 he enjoyed a few weeks off and moved from Barcelona to Pesaro to encourage from the stands the team led by Daniel Orsanic who beat Italy 3-1 in the quarterfinals. in the year in which he later won the “Silver Salad Bowl” after beating Croatia in the final in Zagreb.
“I haven’t put together my calendar yet, but I will surely start with the Australian tour and with renewed goals. This year I felt good, competing at everyone’s level, not only because I won Challengers. My challenge is to stay, if I could step on the ‘top 30 ‘ or ‘top 40’ better,” he predicted.
Cachín finally reminded Télam that another of his purposes is to be able to “stay healthy”, without injuries that complicate him or prevent him from competing.
It is that the Cordovan does not forget that his career was interrupted twice, first in 2016 when he suffered a stress fracture in a vertebra, and then in 2019 due to a torn ankle ligament.
