Juan Pablo Varillas at the Miami Open, who will be his debut against?

The first Peruvian racket, Jean Paul Varillas, enjoyed a few weeks off and will now face another challenge in another country and in a brand new tournament on another surface. After his clay court tour across South America, he will now compete in the first Masters 1000 of her career.

The national athlete managed to qualify directly for the main draw of the Miami Open thanks to his position in the ATP ranking (88th), since the Spaniard Raphael Nadal He suffered an injury for which he had to withdraw from indian goods and the Miami Open, which saw the first Peruvian tennis player move from number five alternately to ‘main board‘.

‘In John the Baptist‘ will start their participation between Wednesday March 22 or Thursday March 23, it was known after the draw that was made to define the opponent they will face in the first round. The last Peruvian rep we had in an ATP 1000 event was in 2008, where Luis Horna passed the quality of Hamburg Masters 1000but fell on the first lap.

The Peruvian tennis player has his first confirmed rival and it is Guido Pella (581 ATP)former number 20 in 2019. The Argentinian tennis player managed to advance to the main draw of the Masters 1000 due to his protected ranking, as a terrible right knee injury forced him to put away his rackets since October 2021.

The Peruvian and the Argentinian have already met twice before. In 2014, Varillas faced off in Colombia and Pella won 6-4 on both occasions. Likewise, in 2017, he triumphed again against the national representative 6-2, 6-1. Both matchups took place in clay-court tournaments.

However, the Peruvian tennis player will face a very difficult challenge, as despite the Argentine having been out of the court for almost a year and a half, he continues to recover since returning to action in November last year. ‘last year. Like Varillas, he took part in the australian openhe Cordoba ATP and the Argentina Open, where despite falling in the first round, in every game he played he left to fight.

His last appearance dates back to indian goods. During ‘the fifth Grand Slam’, as they call it. Pella managed to beat the Brazilian tennis player Thiago Monteiro 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the first round, but was beaten in the following game against the Dutchman Tallon Greek Railway by 7(7)-6(3),7(7)-6(4).

The national tennis player started the year in great shape. participated in the Australian Openwhere they won two qualifying matches and lost in the third, however, they qualified for the main draw as ‘lucky loser‘ and in a big game he lost 3-2 to the German Alexander Zverev (16 ATP).

Later, he also attended the Chilean Challengerwhere he lost in the Round of 16 to the Argentinian Facundo Diaz Acosta for 2-1. While in the Cordoba Open fell in the first round against the Serb Dusan Lajovic. Then he came to the tournament Buenos Aires ATP 250Although this is where he currently lives and trains daily, he couldn’t stand out.

However, reaching the Argentina Open, where he played from the qualifying phase, then in the first round he played against the Portuguese Sousa. and came Dominique Thiem, who was number three in the world. In the quarter-finals,In John the Baptist‘ pitted Lorenzo Musetti (20 ATP), he beat the three tennis players and thus reached the semi-final against Cameron Norrie (12 ATP), who beat the national representative by two sets to nil.

Finally, at the Rio Open, he forcefully beat the French Hugo Gaston (106 ATP) by two sets to nil, and in the round of 16 he fell to the Argentinian Sebastien Baez (35 ATP) for 2-0. His last tournament was in Santiago, the Chile Openwhere he fell in the first round by the local tennis player Nicholas Jarry.