SANTIAGO – After much speculation over the past two years, “The Bomber of La Reina” has announced that he will be finishing his career in Miami. Once ranked at number five in the world, González dropped closer to number 300, though recently moved up the rankings after his second round loss in the VTR Open. [...]
VIÑA DEL MAR – Juan Monaco won the VTR Open in Viña del Mar. The Player from Argentina triumphed for the 4th time and stopped his drought of titles and victories in the finals. With a big smile he endet up the last match against first time finalist Carlos Berlocq. Berlocq was one of the many [...]
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VIÑA DEL MAR – There were mixed results for two veterans of Chilean tennis in the first round of the VTR Open tennis tournament at Viña del Mar. The event is the first ATP clay court competition of the year, and begins the part of the ATP tour known as the “Latin American Swing”. Fernando González [...]
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SANTIAGO — One of the favorite sons of Chilean tennis returned to center court last night, Tuesday, Dec. 20 at Estadio Nacional. The three time Olympic medal winner and former world number 5 has struggled with injuries over the past two years, but was in fine form with a victory over Frenchman Gaël Monfils, winning [...]
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SANTIAGO — Former top 10 player Fernando Gonzalez will return to center court action at Estadio Nacional tomorrow night, Tuesday, Dec. 20. With the formal season of the ATP finished, a number of exhibition matches have been staged throughout the world, including the Copa Santo Tómas, which will see Gonzalez face Gaël Monfils of France. [...]
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Great journey for Chilean Tennis Wednesday, during the “Futuro 8″ tournament that is played in Rancagua, six of our national tennis players advanced to the quarter-finals. The schedule for the quarter-finals is: Cristóbal Saavedra (CHILE) vs. Jason Kubler (AUSTRALIA) Guillermo Hormazábal (CHILE) vs. Gonzalo Lama (CHILE) Matías Sborowitz (CHILE) vs. Carlos González (CHILE) Hans Podlipnik (CHILE) [...]
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Both veteran striker Humberto Suazo and midfielder Luis Jiménez have been left out of Chile’s squad for next month’s back-to-back friendlies in Europe. The duo were surprise omissions from coach Claudio Borghi’s 24-man squad announced on Thursday. Three new players have been given call-ups – Miguel Aceval of Universidad de Concepción along with Universidad de [...]
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UC cruises through Universidad Católica has ensured we’ll have an all-Chilean Copa Sudamericana third round tie after comfortably seeing off Uruguay’s Bella Vista. Mario Lepe’s men eased to a 3-0 second leg success at the San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium, ensuring a 4-1 triumph overall following on from the 1-1 draw in Montevideo a fortnight [...]
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Paul Capdeville’s rise back up the world tennis rankings continues. The Chilean number one now stands at 98th in the ATP listings, the first time since October 2009 that he has climbed inside the top 100. This latest positive move is thanks to the Santiago man’s victory at the Challenger title in Binghamton, New York [...]
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Paul Capdeville’s decent run at the Campos do Jordao in Brazil has come to an end. The Chilean number one lost out to Argentinean Brian Dabul following a close to three hour marathon in the three set encounter. Capdeville lost the opener 6-4 but battled back in the next to win on a tie-break 7-6. [...]
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