M15 Milo Tennis Tour: Legacy & Impact

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The results speak for themselves; Three compatriots, two of them juniors, got their first ATP points during the competition and the two finals of the championship were starred by nationals.

“Osito” Núñez broke an eight-year streak:

Daniel Núñez led the best week of Chilean men’s tennis since the return of the M15 tournaments in Concepción during the 2023 season. In an atypical event in the last tournaments in the country, There were six Chileans in the quarterfinals and three in the semifinals.

It was precisely the Rancagüino who confirmed the end of the negative streak one day before the final, by defeating the second seeded Mexican in the first round on Saturday Rodrigo Alujas by 6-4 and 7-6(4).

With the “Osito” installed in the final, it remained to know who would be the Chilean who would challenge him for the championship title. Benjamín Torrealba was on his way to forcing a third set against Bastián Malla, when the Antofagasta player withdrew from the match with the score 7-6(5) and 4-5.

This left “Rabbit” with a new chance to claim champion, after falling in the final of the M15 Kursumlijska Banjain the tour of Serbia financed by the Chilean Tennis Federation in the middle of the year.

Finally the third time was the charm for Núñez, who this Sunday defeated Torrealba 6-3 and 6-4, thus winning his first professional singles title, after two previous attempts, at the M15 Sao Paulo in 2023 and M15 Cundinamarca 2021where he lost to another Chilean, Michel Vernier in the final.

The consecration of Núñez in the passage of the ITF World Tennis Tour through Chile is the first of a national in eight years, after the triumph of Tomás Barrios over Alejandro Tabilo in the final of the Futuro Chile 3 played at the Autoclub de Antofagasta.

As if that were not enough, the duo final was also decided between compatriots. Núñez himself, together with Ignacio Becerra, came back against Nicolás Villalón and Torrealba, to win the title 1-6, 6-3 and 10-6.

This is the Rancagüino’s fifth title in the specialty, while for Becerra it is his second consecration, all of them together with Núñez.

Menzel, de la Peña and Ortiz enter the ATP ranking:

There were ten Chileans who passed the first singles round of the tournament. Of all of them, three managed to win in that instance for the first time.

one of them was Bautista de la Peñawho became the second national team of the 2009 generation to win a main draw match, after Benjamín Pérez’s great campaign this year at the M15 Club Sirio Unidos.

“Bauti” took advantage of the wild card given by the organization and defeated the sixth seed in the table, the Argentine Julian Cundom by sets of 6-3, 3-6 and 6-4. With this result, our country is the second nation after France with the most players in 2009 to enter the ATP ranking.

For its part, Thomas Menzel He also registered his name among the sixteen best in the competition, beating his compatriot Benjamín Zúñiga 6-1 and 7-5. The 18-year-old from Villarrica will also appear on the main men’s tennis list, in one of the most important years of his career, being part of the national delegation in the Junior Pan American Games Asunción 2025.

The Chilean presence in the ATP ranking will close Diego Ortiz. The capital’s native drew the classification to animate one of the three local crosses that occurred in the first round. There he beat Alonso Zúñiga in two sets, 6-2 and 6-3, to complete his best week in professionalism so far, as a corollary to the most important week for Chilean tennis on the tour. ratifying the commitment of Fetech, together with the IND and the private sector with the return of Milo, for the development of our players at home.

The last M15 Milo Tennis Tour tournament is now underway at the Ciudad Deportiva Universidad San Sebastián with its classification. The competition was extended until Sunday, November 30.