I was asking because, currently he is the only hope of the armada, once the generation we have known for more than a decade leaves the scene.
They have Baena too, which has also a different kind of game. Actually if we look in detail, we find more Spaniards (active, either young or old) which defy the "grinder" cliche than the ones who apparently confirm it. I could go one by one but definitely not enough time to that. But I am still neutral or root against most of them, apart from Verdasco, as I always root for empty-headed bastards. One day we will take over the world.
an 18yr old lost, but his name is full of win..,,,,,,thiago seyboth wild
He is the Brazilian hope. He's got game. Ranked around ~500, lost his two atp matches to guys 400 places or more above him, but all went to the third, he won the first in both and was in position to close I guess in the second and third sets of both. Still some nerves to deal with but a nice prospect. And, yes, helluva name.
@Moxie called attention to that a while ago, I guess in last Rio Open, when he got a wild card (his other ATP match). He's got wild cards for both Braz tournaments this year (Rio's ATP 500 and Brazil Open ATP 250, pretty close to my home here in SP, thus greatest tournament of all time).
Both. It was initially in Vina del Mar in Chile, got moved to Quito in Ecuador for about 5 years or so, now is debuting in Cordoba .
Vina del Mar is the place were Nadal lost one of his few clay finals, against Zeballos, who is a quite nice guy by the way. Then Quito was surely the highest altitude tournament I guess, around 2800 meters above sea level. Bellucci and loved that tournament, he is probable one of the GOATs in high altitude as he won there and made a lot of SF, and also won in Gstaad (more than 1000 meters high) and made semis in Madrid (~700 meters).
Thx, I'd never heard of him before.
My post you quoted could be misleading, as I was talking about Jarry actually (know that you got it but still). It should be read as:
"Juan Inacio Londero. Your typical clay courter, solid player. Jarry, which is Chilean, in Argentina, against a local (Londero)... He probably had to hear them celebrating every single first serve he missed. Not impressive I agree but not as surprising as it might seem."
