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The Chilean tennis player Cristian Garin (19th ATP) marked a milestone in his young career by settling for the first time in the third round of a Grand Slam by beating in the second stage of Roland Garros after beating the Australian in four sets Mark Polmans (122 °).
Chile’s number one was imposed by partials of 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) and 6-4 in a game that lasted for three hours and 44 minutes.
At the beginning of the game, the Chilean was violated by the aggressiveness of the oceanic, who with a powerful service and constant trips to the network complicated the national.
In addition, Garin was not confident with his serve and this was capitalized by the South African-born, who forced him to take the first set to the tie-breaker. In that instance, it was more solid and forced the national tennis player to row against the current.
In that situation Garin responded well and based on deep tennis, constant attack on the backhand of the islander, and various short blows, he began to tilt the control of the game in his favor.
It was like this with two breaks he stayed with the second set, and although in the third Polmans forced to go to a new tiebreaker, instance where the born in Arica imposed his terms to take the advantage on the board.
Despite the encouragement Polman gave himself, Garin seized his opportunity and broke his opponent’s serve in the third game to take a decisive lead.
And although a small pain in the right shoulder caused by a bad strength in a return put his serve in check, finally Garin came forward and in his second match point he sealed his passage to the round of the best 32 in an unprecedented fact for his career and also for Chilean tennis, given that the last to access the third stage of a “great” was Fernando González at Wimbledon 2011.
In that instance, Garin will face the Russian Karen Kachanov (16th), who left Czech Jiri Vesely (68th) on the road by beating him 6-1, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (7) and 7-6 (2).
