On the afternoon of this Wednesday, March 23, Colombian tennis player Daniel Elahi Galán made his debut in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 open in Miami in the United States.
After defeating Argentina's Nicolás Kicker with 5-7, 6-3 and 6-4 partials on March 22, Galán Riveros played the first round and started the road to the Florida State Tennis Open title on the right foot by beating Australian competitor John Millman in two sets (6-4 and 6-2).
The game started in the middle of an unusual point in favor of the oceanico, who was very lucky to play at the start of the engagement, but did not have enough consistency to impose the final rhythm of the match:
Millman, who currently ranks 78th in the ATP world rankings, made his debut in 2006 and has since played a total of 252 matches with a record of 115 wins and 137 losses.
Galán, for his part, ranks 118th in the world ranking and after making his debut in 2013 he has managed to achieve 26 victories and 26 losses in professional ATP tournaments.
In the second set of the match between Galán and Millman, the Colombian started by taking the 4-2 lead in the fifth game of the engagement and showed the strength he had in previous qualifying matches, just as he did against American Martin Damm and Argentina's Nicolás Kicker.
The 5-2 of the match soon reached the slate in a perfect game for the bumangués athlete, who sentenced practically the entire game in one hour and 16 minutes of competition.
Finally, the second set of the match was sealed with a result of 6-2 in favor of Galán and the Santandereano celebrated his ticket to the second phase where the best 64 competitors of the championship will be after a vibrant hour and 22 minutes of play.
It should be recalled that today Galán participated in the round of best 128 tennis players and with his twenty-sixth professional title he will now face Kazakh tennis player Alexander Búblik, number 33 in the world and who has just fallen in the sixteenth finals of the Indian Wells Open in California.
This is the qualifying table in section 7 of the championship for the Colombian:
Here is the match point of the Colombian and Australian clash in the first round of the Itaú Masters 1000 Open in Miami organized by the ATP:
Daniel is coming from winning this year's ATP Challenger 250 champion in Concepción, Chile, on January 23 after being eliminated in the first rounds of the Adelaide Open and the Australian Open in the men's singles category.
In Cordoba, Argentina, he suffered the same fate on February 4, falling in the quarterfinals against Diego Schwartzman and then fell in his debuts in Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile and qualifying for Indian Wells in California.
As for Taylor Fritz, the last winner of the Indian Wells Masters 1000, he will face a qualifier (such as Galán) or Botic van de Zandschulp (42nd). In addition, other potential second-round duels could be: Andrey Rublev against Nick Kyrgios or Adrian Mannarino; Matteo Berrettini against Juan Manuel Cerúndolo or Dusan Lajovic; Diego Schwartzman against Richard Gasquet or a qualifier.
The potential quarterfinal duels would look like this: Medvedev vs. Hubert Hurkacz (10th), Tsitsipas vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime (9th), Rublev vs. Berrettini and Casper Ruud vs. Zverev.
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