Cristian Garin He wants to keep his high level intact and continue on the right path as he has been doing in recent tournaments. For this reason, in the Miami Masters 1000 he started from the Qualy, in which he defeated the Japanese Kaichi Uchida and his compatriot Alejandro Tabilo without losing sets to get into the main draw of the tournament, where he awaits Marcos Giron in the first round.
The main draw of the Miami Open put first this Wednesday, but “Gago” will not have action until Thursday when he faces the North American, although the schedule and the court that will play him in the programming are not yet known. Furthermore, the cross between Cristian Garin and Marcos Giron has a special flavor, since they meet again on court after two years.
The last match between the two took place at Roland Garros in 2021, where the Chilean tennis player beat the American 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 and 6-2 in the third round of the tournament. In it, the Arica native made the difference from the service, where he hit 66% of his first serves and won 70% of the points played with it, in addition to generating almost twenty situations to keep his rival’s serve and of them he took advantage of nine.
But the match they had in the second Grand Slam of the season was not the only time they met, they also met in the first qualifying match heading to the main draw of the US Open, where Cristian Garin he prevailed 6-3 and 6-4, but failed to get into the main draw, since he fell in the next round of Qualy.
How does Giron arrive?
Before entering the main draw of the M1000 in Miami, Marcos Giron played the Indian Wells Masters, where he lost in the first round to Frances Tiafoe in the first round of the Californian desert tournament. Precisely, Frances later became the executioner of Alejandro Tabilo in the contest itself.
As well as playing the singles, the American tennis player also participated in the doubles with his compatriot Jeffrey John “JJ” Wolf, although they lost in the second round of the competition against the British Lloyd Glasspool and the Finn Harri Heliovaara 6-2 and 6 -3.
