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The best career week of Colombian tennis player Daniel Galán (Team Colsanitas, Head) came after winning his first title of the year and the first in the Challenger category at the San Benedetto tournament (Italy) , an event that he played in the Maggioni Tennis Circolo, on clay courts, and awarded 64 000 euros in prizes
??? We have a champion and he is Colombian
Daniel Galán, with 22 years, wins his first Challenger title in ] #SanBenedetto ?? after defeating the Spaniard Sergio Gutiérrez-Ferrol ?? by 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
This was the match point (? ATP Challenger) fr.twitter.twitter .com / cXAO3sKCwU
– Fedecoltenis (@fedecoltenis) July 22, 2018
Galán (226th), eighth in the table, won the Spanish Sergio Gutiérrez-Ferrol (233º) with partial 6- 2, 3-6 and 6-2, in one h and 55 minutes, to obtain his fifth title as a professional. The national player has already registered the Futures trophies of Manzanillo (Mexico) 2015, Bogotá (Colombia) 2015, Valledupar (Colombia) 2017 and Lima (Peru) 2017.
This way Daniel Galán takes his first title in the Challenger races in his second final, remembering that the first was in 2017 in Bogotá, where he was overtaken by Marcelo Arévalo of El Salvador 7-5 and 6-4
On the way to the crown, the best ranked ATP Colombian beat the Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci (265th), former world number 21, by 4-6, 6-1 and 6-4 in the round of 16 in the first round. The French Johan Tatlot (272) for 6-3 and 6-4, in the quarterfinals against the Italian Luca Vanni (197), former world number 100, 6-3 and 7-6 (5) and in Semifinal of the Italian Lorenzo Giustino (247th) by 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4.
The other good news for Daniel Galán is that with this result he will climb 61 positions in the ATP ranking and for the first time will enter the group of the 200 best in the world: from tomorrow it will grow to 165 in the world.
* With information from the press office
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