Cristian Garin (98th in the world ranking) had to struggle but finally achieved his goal in the Tokyo ATP 500: after two and a half hours of play, and having started down on the scoreboard, defeated Rinky Hijikata (75th) 5-7, 6-3 and 6-2 and entered the main draw of the Japanese competition.
Garin got into the Tokyo draw. Getty Images.
In this way, the winner of five ATP titles and former world number 17, at 27 years old, will seek to regain regularity on the circuit and climb the ranking. Even though they were in qualifying, The last time Gago had achieved two consecutive wins was in the last Masters 1000 in Toronto (against Maxime Janvier and Christopher O’Connell), also in the classification.
To look for two consecutive victories within a main draw, you have to go back to May of this year: at the Rome Masters 1000. There, he had defeated the Argentine Pedro Cachín and Tommy Paul, respectively. Then, he would fall to Laslo Djere in the third round, where he could not finish the match due to physical discomfort.
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In the first round of Tokyo, Garin already knows who he will face. He will have a very tough match against local tennis player Sho Shimabukuro (135°), who received an invitation to the draw from the organization. This will be the first confrontation between the two. With this passage to main drawthe Chilean virtually climbed four places in the ranking, finishing 94th.
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In his previous tournaments he lost to the German Jan-Lennard Struff in the segunda ronda del ATP 250 de Zhuhaiin the qualy del ATP 500 in Beijing with the South African Lloyd Harris and in the second phase of the main draw of the Shanghai Masters 1000 with el ruso Daniil Medvedev.
2023-10-15 12:50:37
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