Juan Pablo Varillas accesses the final round of Roland Garros. What’s next for him?

It happened with Yzaga, with Horna: be attentive and look everywhere for information about a Peruvian tennis player at Roland Garros. Juan Pablo Varillas, our first national racket, he won this morning against the Croatian Duje Ajdukovic (230th) 6-2 and 6-1 in the second match of the Roland Garros qualifying stage. With this victory, the national reaches the final round of the French Open for the first time in his professional career.

After an hour and seven minutes of play, Varillas set a good pace based on decisive blows to win the match. The first racket of Peru will play the final round of the tournament, being one step closer to being part of the 128 tennis players who will play Roland Garros.

The great actuality of ‘Juanpi’ is reflected in its results. Today 122nd in the ATP ranking aspires to enter a Grand Slam for the first time in his history, a fact that he did not achieve the previous two years. The physical problems that took the Peruvian away from the Top 100 a few weeks ago seem to have been left behind and the goal of being in the world tennis elite is getting closer.

Looking to add and defend as many points as possible, Varillas shows a winning mentality to finish the year in the Top 100 if not sooner. The ATP ranking is one of the most complicated in sport due to the number of variables involved.“Juanpi has everything to enter the Top 100, when it will be, nobody knows. It is impossible to know because the ranking is up and down”, affirms Oscar Castro journalist of Diario Récord.

Now Varillas waits to meet his next rival who will come out of the duel between the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (138th) and the Italian Salvatore Caruso (207th), in a match that will be played tomorrow with a time to be confirmed.