When the sport was still in white clothing, the surname Buse already brought joy to Peruvian tennis. “The Peruvian tennis player Enrique Buse defeats the Chilean champion Galleguillos”, is titled and tells in images the victory of the Peruvian tennis player in a university tournament in the United States. Eighty years later, in HD signal and dressed in red, Ignacio Buse practically repeats the feat with his victory on Saturday over Nicolás Jarry, a Chilean who surpasses him by more than 400 places in the ATP ranking. Nacho, 19 years old, excited us with his game in the Davis Cup Qualifiers, which the southerners finally won by a tight 3-2 in Santiago.
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The night was very hard for the Peruvian team, and even more so for a young Ignacio, who had no options against Tabilo at the close of the series. According to those close to the team, the hours became long after the results. The last meeting ended around midnight and the Peruvians were only able to fall asleep at dawn on Monday.
The result is behind us and we have to trust in this team that combines experience and youth. “Ignacio is the validation we have to be excited about a good player in the future. But as Lucho Horna said, you have to be very patient with him and Gonzalo Bueno. They must learn from victories and defeats,” says Juan Diego Llosa, a Peruvian journalist who was in Santiago following the games on the same field.
Ignacio Buse hopes to climb the ranking to play Challenger tournaments. (Photo: Itea Media)
Now he continues with his season in Europe. Yesterday she traveled to Barcelona and from there she will go to Portugal where she will play three M25 tournaments of the future circuit (ITF professional tournaments). Her ranking of 438 still does not allow her to try the Challengers, so she hopes to continue rising to soon be among the elite. The twelve Challengers that she has competed in have been done with Wild Cards or from Qualy.
The good thing in the defeat is the confirmation that there is a Peruvian Davis Cup team for the future. Captain Lucho Horna has said it many times, Tupi Venero anticipated it, who had the opportunity to train Buse and Gonzalo Bueno when they were children. The game now confirms it. Gonza stood out in the last series against Ireland last year and now it was Nacho’s turn, with his impressive victory against Jarry and the great fight against Tabilo.
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Illustrious surname
Nacho has been playing tennis for as long as he can remember. At the age of 3 he already picked up a racket to practice with his father, a tennis coach. In the Buse family it could not be otherwise: Nacho’s grandfather, Don Enrique Buse, and his brother, Don Ernesto, were glories of the national sport, so much so that the central court of the Lawn Tennis at the Exhibition is named after them. he.
Members of the Peruvian team remember that when Ignacio had to play in that venue, in the fifth game of the series against Norway, he could not bear the emotion. “He told us that he really wanted to enter, that he saw himself playing his best tennis on that court. He was very motivated,” says Mario Monroy, president of the Peruvian Tennis Federation, which provides financial support for Nacho’s career.
A University fan also started playing soccer, but in the fourth grade he left everything for tennis. Then he joined the Under 12, Under 14 and Under 16 teams – he qualified for the three world championships in the categories with the national team – until he consolidated himself as a junior and became ranked 9th in the ITF in January 2022. That year he played in the four Grand Slam Juniors and in doubles he reached the final of Roland Garros with Gonzalo Bueno and they made the semis at the US Open as well.
Last year the time came to decide between professionalism or university life shared with tennis. The Peruvian decided to go to the University of Georgia, but some documentary problems prevented him from doing so. Given that, he dedicated himself fully to tennis. Like any career, there were barriers that made him hesitate. An emergency operation in Cali due to a health problem in his throat kept him away from the courts for several months, between May and August, causing him to reflect.
But he kept his wrist and came back stronger, so much so that he reached the quarter-finals of the Lima Challenger since qualifying in August and at the beginning of October his first professional titles came, first in the M25 in Mendoza, Argentina, and then in the M25 from Zapopan, in Mexico. Professionalism was on the horizon.
Now Peru knows its talent and knows that it has a lot ahead of it. This season he reached an agreement with the TEC Academy in Barcelona, to make his training base there and deepen his hitting on fast courts.
“It is important for young people to learn to cope with difficult climates and I want to highlight that Buse continues to compete on fast tracks and it is interesting that a Peruvian profile is focusing on that because it is what is missing. Buse has the conditions, he has a great backhand and serves well,” says Miguel Medina, journalist from Desde la Qualy, who remembers that on the ATP Circuit there are more tournaments on hard courts, so it is good that Nacho has focused this start Over there.
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