Daniel Galán won in his debut at the Tallahassee Challenger and extends his winning streak for the month to six

Tennis player Daniel Galán, Colombia's number one racquet in the ATP ranking, is still on a roll after winning his debut at the Tallahassee Challenger. The Colombian defeated Argentine Andrea Collarini in two sets, number 257 in the ranking. The match ended with 6-4 and 6-3 partials in the first round of the US tournament.

Galán in the second round of the tournament that grants 100 points for the ranking to the champion player will face Australian Jason Kubler, number 178 in the world and who he faced in the same instance in the tournament based in the city of Sarasota held last week and where the bumangués finished champion.

The now 113th in the ranking, who is looking to enter the top 100 of the ATP standings, is looking for his third title in the Challenger category tournaments and the fifth in his record to beat Alejandro Gonzalez in fourth positions of Colombian players with the most trophies won.

Great triumph for Colombian tennis player Daniel Galán, who beat Steve Jonson in the final of the ATP Challenger in Sarasota in the United States, who won the title favorite with 7-6, 6-4 and 6-1 partials, earning his second trophy of the year.

In this way, the Bucaramanga-born won the fourth title of his career in ATP Challenger tournaments, following the championships in San Benedetto, Italy in 2018, Lima in 2020 and Concepción this year. In addition to the title and 100 ATP points, Galán takes a figure close to 106,240 dollars.

The first set was quite close: Daniel Galán had three chances of breaking, but he was not certain when it came to finishing off his rival. It was in the Tie-break that the 25-year-old tennis player went into the lead thanks to the set point.

For the second set, the American took advantage of Galán's deconcentrations to end up equalizing the series. However, Steve Jonson could not keep up the pace for the final set, which was taken advantage of by Daniel Galán who overcame him in two breaks and processed the game to win the long-awaited title after seven finals played in this type of tournament.

Before reaching the final Daniel Galán defeated Australian Max Purcell 7-5 and 7-6 (4); later he beat fellow Australian Jason Kubler 6-3, 4-6 and 6-3. In the quarterfinals he had no problems with Bulgarian Adrian Andreev, who left the game after just 10 minutes and in the semifinals he beat Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 7-6 (3) and 6-1.

With this title by Daniel Galán, Colombia has 53 conquests in Challengers and cuts a six-year drought without victories in this type of competition in the United States. The last one was Santiago Giraldo in 2016 in Fairfield.

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