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Cristian Garin (19th in the ATP ranking) achieved a spectacular comeback against the American Ulises Blanch (244th) and advanced to the US Open second roundaccording to this season’s Grand Slam.
Chile’s number one got back to a lousy start on Court 11 at Flushing Meadows and He ended up imposing by partials of 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-2, in just over three hours of commitment.
The national had very bad first two sets. On very few occasions he was able to disturb his rival’s service games and in his own he had many doubts, mainly in the end, giving up two important breaks that meant they were 2-0 down in sets.
Despite this, “Gago” was always with a constructive attitude, without falling into blackouts and always staying close on the scoreboard, which earned him a new break opportunity in the third set, which this time he took advantage of to win it and get into the party.
However, the great psychological springboard was achieved in the fourth quarter, breaking from the start and maintaining his serve games, despite some difficulties, which again It allowed him to stay with the set and in this way gain a very important confidence to also win the fifth sleeve comfortably and stay with the party.
This confrontation recalled a very similar one that he had in his premiere of the same contest in 2019, when he also faced a promising local tennis player like Christopher Eubanks (188th at the time) and where he also won in five sets after a poor start.
Now, The “Tank” will have to focus on his next challenge against Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin (90 °), who won this Monday against the Hungarian Attila Balasz powder (78 °) 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4.
