Thiago Wild defeats the French and challenges the Argentine top 30 in Rome

Thiago Wild, number 61 in the world and with his best ranking, made his debut on the right foot, this Thursday, at the Masters 1000 in Rome, Italy, an event on clay with a prize pool of 9 million euros (R$ 48 .6 million).

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The country’s number 1 Paraná native defeated French qualifier Gregoire Barrere, 115th and Felipe Meligeni’s tormentor in the preliminary round, by 2 sets to 0 with partials of 6/4 6/2 in a duel held on the Pietrangeli court, one of the most beautiful in the world .

The Brazilian scores his seventh victory in eleven Masters 1000 games. This year he was in all the third rounds of this type of event (Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid) and will look for another victory over a top 30, on Saturday, against Argentine Tomas Etcheverry, 28th place, seed 25. The two played three times on the circuit with two victories for Etcheverry, both in Turkey, in 2021. The Brazilian won the last one, also three years ago, in Tallahassee, in the United States.

This Thursday, Wild was dominant, took an early break and closed the first set. He broke through in the second with 2-1, increased the lead to 5-2 and had to deal with a 15/40 and several break-points against. At the second opportunity he closed. There were six service breaks for Marechal Candido Rondon’s tennis player in 17 chances against three for his opponent.