Thiago Tirante settled a personal debt that he left pending in Mexican territory in 2023, after winning for the first time in the singles tournament of the Mexico City Open ATP Challenger 125 in his second consecutive final in the competition, after winning 6-1 and 6- 3 to Canadian Alexis Galarneau, who stood out as the revelation of the competition.
“I feel very comfortable playing here and I want to thank everyone who was part of the tournament and made it possible,” commented Thiago after winning the champion trophy.
On his return to the Chapultepec Sports Center, the Argentine tennis player got rid of the thorn of losing in the final to take the championship with perfect pace by not losing a single set in the five matches he appeared, endorsing the support of the public, who already He has welcomed him as one of his favorite players.
“I came to enjoy the tournament, I know that I am a good player at altitude and when the calendar was put together I did not hesitate to come despite the injury I suffered in February, so arriving in Mexico represented an additional challenge, I knew what I had to do things were going well as the first seed and I was able to keep the pressure under control,” Tirante highlighted at a press conference.
Likewise, the championship at the Mexico City Open gave the player from La Plata the opportunity to achieve his best classification in the professional ranking within the Top 100 and the possibility of entering the main draw of the French Open directly, in addition to representing the triumph in three consecutive finals in the ATP Challenger series, after the titles in Cuernavaca and Bogotá in 2023.
“All the matches were hard, but the most important was today because there was a lot of points difference and it represented more things to me, such as the possibility of entering the main draw at Roland Garros,” he confessed.
On his way to the title, Thiago Tirante defeated the Italian Federico Gaio 7-5 and 6-3 in the first round, and then eliminated his compatriot Juan Pablo Ficovich from contention with partials of 7-5 and 61, while in the quarterfinals In the final he beat the British Oliver Crawford 6-4 and 6-4 and in the semifinals the Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4 and 7-6, before rounding off the week against Galarneau.
“One of the keys to the championship was the physical and mental, I knew that tennis was there and we worked on that, I had a good preseason this year and luckily the results came quickly in some way,” explained the Argentine. “I knew I was doing things right, that I was on the right path and that good games were going to come,” he concluded.
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– 2024-04-10 13:55:25
