The Chilean tennis player Tomás Barrios fought again until the end to get into the semifinals of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, after beating the player from the Dominican Republic, Nick Hardt and getting into the fight for medals, where he already has one in his possession after achieve the silver medal in Lima 2019.
The “Gigante de Ñuble” defeated the Dominican, by partials of 2-6, 6-4 and 6-4 in a duel that started in a bad way for the second national racket, but he was able to bring out his experience and his favoritism in the tournament, being the only Chilean in competition, after the fall of Alejandro Tabilo in the round of 16 against the Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo by partials of 6-4, 6-7 and 5-7.
Now the third national racket will face the winner between the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and the Argentine Facundo Bagnis, where both are also medal winners, who are direct rivals of Barrios in the search for the gold medal.
In the doubles, Barrios is also still alive with Alejandro Tabilo and yesterday he made his way to the semifinals after beating the Colombian duo Nicolás Mejía and Nicolás Barrientos, making his way to the semifinals, where they will fight for a medal for Team Chile.
At the end of this day, the national duo that has represented the country in the Davis Cup was seeking its place in the final against the Costa Ricans Rodrigo Crespo, Jesse Flores. If they win the series, they will face the winners of the duel between the Dominicans Nick Hardt and Roberto Cid and the Brazilians Gustavo Heide and Marcelo Demoliner.
For his part, Héctor Quintana fulfilled his participation in the track chase, where they had to change a partner at the last minute, which produced a poor performance.
For her part, María José Lagos fell in the Standle Padle Up repechage.
