Juan Pablo Varillas: Rising Star in Peruvian Tennis Dreams of Roland Garros

LOOK: “Lima today has the ability to continue dreaming about whatever it wants”

The number one racket in Peruvian tennis defeated the Argentine Facundo Bagnis 6-3 and 6-2 to crown a great week.

Already in the Chilean capital he had achieved his first victory in 2024 (in the ATP against Comesaña on February 27) and returned to win the Challenger. Due to his poor results and drop in the ranking he had to return to this circuit to make a comeback.

With yesterday’s title, Juan Pablo added 75 points to the ranking and managed to return to the top 100 ATP after having been at 119 at the end of February and 110 at the beginning of this month.

This Monday he will appear in box 95 in the best of cases or 98 in the ranking, since it puts him back in the elite and makes him continue dreaming of reaching the main draw of Roland Garros directly.

“It has been the team’s goal for a month, to get to Roland Garros,” said Juan Pablo from Santiago and the fight will be week by week.

He would currently be classified, but the ‘entry list’ for Roland Garros only comes out on April 15, so he must remain below 98th place until that date.

Juan Pablo will need to recover the 85 points he lost in April (10 from the Miami Masters and 75 from last year’s San Remo Challenger) and add others to stay in the top positions. According to specialist Manuel Cabezas from the Tenis Peruano portal, there must be more than 50 units.

And to do this he has to take advantage of the tournaments in which he starts as a favorite. This week he competes in the Asunción Challenger where he is the first seed. He is then enrolled in Sao Leopoldo, where he must add more points to guarantee his stay in the top 100.

Next stop

Three Peruvians in Asunción

The Peruvian flag now moves to the Asunción Challenger, where Varillas and Gonzalo Bueno have action in the main draw and Conner Huertas del Pino will seek to qualify via qualifying.

Juan Pablo is the first classified and will face, probably tomorrow or Wednesday, the Bolivian promise Juan Prado, while Gonza debuts with a player who comes from qualifying, an instance in which today Conner faces the Argentine Gonzalo Villanueva, from 2 in the afternoon.

-Life jacket-

“It has been like a roller coaster,” said Juan Pablo about the week he lived in Santiago. The thing is that in the first three rounds he had to battle until a third set and in all the matches he saved match point against.

In his debut, against the Englishman Paul Jubb, he saved three match points. Against the Brazilian Orlando Luz in the round of 16 he also saved another three match points and in the quarterfinals against the Italian Francesco Passaro the same thing. A total of 9 saves to get into the semis, where he had a calmer match against the Canadian Draxl, whom he beat 6-3 and 6-2, same result against Bagnis.

Thus, Varillas returned to the triumphant path and hopes for more to continue thinking big.

TOKEN:

challenger titles

• 2019: Campina, Santo Domingo
• 2021: Santiago, Biella
• 2022: Sao Leopoldo
• 2024: Santiago

Upcoming calendar

• Assumption: main draw
• Sao Leopoldo: main draw
• ATP Houston: Alternante 6 / Qualy

2024-03-18 13:06:00
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