Juan Pablo Varillas, the unpublished album by the Peruvian tennis player who has been making history at Roland Garros

Juan Pablo Varillas rarely comes to Lima, which is why he is now enjoying his time at Roland Garros with his parents. His parents saw him beat the Chinese Shang and the Spanish Bautista Agut after coming back from two sets. That’s why his tears, that’s why his emotion.

Rods seeks this Friday to continue his streak at Roland Garros. In the third round he faces the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, current number 14 in the ATP ranking. The Peruvian currently occupies box 94, so the challenge of beating a top tennis player is complicated, but Juan Pablo has already shown that he can do it.

It is the third time that Juan Pablo Varillas has played a Grand Slam main draw. Last year he came to Roland Garros from qualifying and this year he entered the Australian Open as the lucky loser of the rankings. At this year’s French Open he managed to qualify directly for the main draw thanks to being ranked in the top 100.

And it has been a long journey for Varillas, from when he was young when he decided to leave the university to dedicate himself to tennis, to his latest decisions such as moving to Argentina to train to be surrounded by the best tennis on the continent.

She is the number 1 racket in Peruvian tennis and she shows it from her game to her leadership and the teaching she leaves on others. She never give up and fight until the end in search of the result.

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