Daniel Galán's winning streak in Tallahassee ended: the Colombian fell in the semifinals

This Saturday, April 23, the winning streak of 8 consecutive matches by Colombian tennis player Daniel Elahi Galán ended.

The 25-year-old bumanguese, current 113 racket of the ATP ranking, said goodbye to the ATP Challenger in Tallahassee, in the United States, after reaching the semifinal phase of the competition and falling in three sets against the American nationalized Arab, Michael Mmoh (ATP #198).

With partials of [3-6], [7-5] and [6-4] for two hours and 25 minutes of the match, the Colombian ended the illusion of reaching a second consecutive final in the ATP Challenger Tour opens in the state of Florida.

In just 32 minutes, Galán Riveros dominated the first set and although he seemed to have the advantage in the second, his rival came back and forced for another hour to close the competition.

This was the final point that sentenced the host's victory against the South American competitor:

In his debut for the 2022 ATP Challenger Tallahassee, Daniel had beaten Argentine player Andrea Collarini and then did the same against Australia's Jason Kubler and finally did the same on April 22 against Japan's Yosuke Watanuki.

This is how the qualifying draw of the competition was until Saturday, April 23, with tennis players Michael Mmoh (ATP # 198) and Taiwanese Tung-Lin Wu (ATP # 287) as finalists:

This year Daniel has already won two titles, as last week he won the ATP Challenger of Sarasota, also in Florida, United States, and in January he won the title of the ATP Challenger in Concepción 2022, in Chile.

Faced with the present that the bumangués is going through, in its next tournaments, the Colombian would have the opportunity to access, for the first time in his career, the top 100 professional tennis players, an achievement that was already achieved by the North Santander María Camila Osorio (current 55 number of the WTA ranking) at the age of 20, but in the women's tennis branch international.

On January 23, Galán was eliminated in the first rounds of the Adelaide Open and the Australian Open (first grand slam of the year) 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 in his debuts in Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile and qualifying for Indian Wells in California.

On April 5, the Colombian made his debut with a defeat in the round of 32 of the Houston ATP after falling in three sets against American Sam Querrey (ATP #115), and in the thirty-final of the ATP Masters 1000 in Miami, Daniel Elahi farewell against Kazakh Alexander Bubliik (ATP #36) also in three sets, on March 25.

Subsequently, the tennis player and his coach will make the respective assessments to determine if he is fit to participate in an upcoming grand slam, after having competed this year at the Australian Open and last year having been the Colombian representative at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in which category Men's singles ended up taking the gold medal by German Alexander Zverev (ATP #3).

For now, we will have to wait how the career of the Bucaramanga native will evolve in June 1996, who will face the challenge of competing again at Roland Garros, where a year ago he fell in the first round against Argentinian Guido Pella.

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