Juan Pablo Varillas continues to write his name internationally. And it is that after reaching the semifinals of the Argentina Open days ago, the national tennis player extended his good moment, this time beating Frenchman Hugo Gastón 2-0 to reach the final round of 16 of the ATP 500 Rio Open.
With partial scores of 7-5 and 6-4, the first national racket to open his position number 81 in the ATP ranking continued to show great tennis to beat the French number 106 in the ATP after 1 hour and 58 minutes of play. Now Varillas expects the key goal between the Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci and the Argentinian Sebastián Báez (35th) in the next round.
It should be noted that today Juanpi is in the top four in an ATP tournament for the first time in his career, he broke a 15-year streak without a semifinal for Peru (the last was Luis Horna in Acapulco 2008) and as if that wasn’t enough, he secured his best historical location.
now it will be top 80 for the first time, because after this win he climbs five places and is in the 76th ATP (according to the ATP live ranking) and is waiting for the movements of the week to see if he continues to climb and maintain this position.
At 27, he continues to make his mark. He overtook Carlos di Laura and is now the fourth best-placed Peruvian in history, surpassed only by Jaime Yzaga (18th), Pablo Arraya (29th) and Luis Horna (33rd). Without a doubt, the number one racket in Peru has already written its name in national tennis.
In other games, Cameron Norrie, a British tennis player, and Colombian Daniel Galán reached the round of 16 of the Rio open after beating Argentina’s Cerúndolo and Cachín.
Did you know…
Illusion. Peru can count on Juan Pablo Varillas to secure a place in the Davis Cup qualifiers against Norway. The meetings will take place between September 15th and 17th in our country.