A full day for South American tennis on the other side of the world. Of the five male participants who appeared in the last round of qualifying for the Australian Open, all five made it through directly without having to become lucky losers.
Tomás Etcheverry achieved that first step that he surely dreamed of all his life and celebrated as a title proper. You will be playing a Grand Slam main draw for the first time!
The Australian Open is already a reality. The man from La Plata (129th in the world) obtained a superb result against the Italian Flavio Cobolli (199th) in the final round, beating him 6-3 and 6-2.
But he was not the only Argentine who celebrated in Melbourne. Because Marco Trungelliti (198 in the world ranking), a regular since the Qualys, will play his ninth Grand Slam (three in Australia) accessing from the preliminary phase. The man from Santiago beat Damir Dzumhur (161st) 6-2, 2-6 and 7-5.
In addition, Alejandro Tabilo (136º) and Tomás Barrios (151º) also passed and gave double joy to Chile. The first swept Elias Ymer (169th) 6-1, 6-2 and will again play the first Grand Slam of the year as he did in 2020, when he reached the second round. The second beat Filip Horansky (193rd) 7-5, 6-4 and will also make his debut in this tournament.
To close the 5 of 5, the Ecuadorian Emilio Gómez (155º), in silence, defeated Thomas Fabianno (202º) by 7-5, 4-6 and 6-3. In this way, there will be 14 Latin Americans in the Australian men’s team.
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