In a match full of emotions and uncertainty, the Colombian Daniel Galán prevailed against the racket number 5 of the ATP, the Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipás, with a result of 6-0, 6-1, 3-6 y 7-5thus winning the most important match of his tennis career.
“We prepare all our lives to win on courts like these and against rivals like these”, Daniel Galán said once the game was over.
The match developed in one of the main courts of the US Open, the Louis Armstrong stadium, began with a forceful Galan, who won a total of 11 games in a row, which gave him partial victory in the first two sets, with a result of 6-0 and 6-1.
The Greek, for his part, who repeatedly asked the physio for an apparent discomfort in his right elbow, improved his game at the start of the third set and broke the Colombian’s serve, taking the lead for the first time in the match. .
After the course of the gamesGalán could not recover his service game, which led Tsitsipás to win the third set, with a 6-3 run and make a difference against Daniel Galán, who was doubtful and somewhat erratic in his game.
The fourth set started the same as the third set. In the first game, the Colombian lost his service, which suggested that the Greek would take advantage again and equalize the match in sets. However, while Stéfanos Tsitsipas was serving 4-3, to take a 5-3 lead, Daniel Galán broke the world number 5’s serve and leveled the set.
After parity in the 9th game of the 4th set, Galán was forceful and served to take the lead, leaving the partial at 5-4.
in the tenth game Galan had 5 match points in his favor, but the Greek was able to maintain his service game and prolong the set.
Once this first approach to victory had passed and with a partial 6-5 in favor, Daniel Galán attacked Stéfanos Tsitsipás and forced him to commit several forced errors, which put him 15-40, with two match points more in your favor. However, the Greek managed to match the game 40-40.
The Colombian Galán attacked and it was in the 9th match point where he managed to break his rival’s service, giving him the victory and prevailing with a score of 6-0, 6-1, 3-6 y 7-5.
Galan’s brand
On the first day of the United States Tennis Open, the Colombian Daniel Galán, the best racket in the country in the ATP ranking, equaled a mark that only the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the Serbian Novak Djokovic had so far.
In this sense, in the first set of the first-round match in which the Colombian faced the Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipás, pre-classified as 4th in the world for this tournament, Galán managed to equal Nadal and Nole’s mark.
The Colombian racket won the first set 6-0, becoming one of the three players to leave the Greek in the course of the last 5 years.
In addition, Daniel Galán alone he lost 7 points in the first set.