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Tien is close to a new ranking

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February 13, 2025

In his first appearance from Australia, where he reached the eighths of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, Learner Tien has debuted with Victoria this Wednesday at the Ray Beach Open after defeating the Australian Adam Walton 6-4, 6-3 .

Just a month ago he embarked on the fortnight of his life, which included victories against hard rivals such as Daniil Medvedev and Corentin Moutet, and that allowed him to ascend almost 40 places to achieve his first irruption in the top 100 of the PIF ATP Rankings.

This week I could even continue breaking its roof in the ranks. The 19 -year -old right -hander, whose personal record at the PIF ATP Rankings established it a few days ago when climbing No. 80, is now in position No. 78 of the live ranking.

One more triumph of the 19-year-old left-handed would see him go up to Top 75 of this list and be even closer to a new personal brand in the ranks, in which a year ago I was outside the Top 400. Now with 4- 2 In the year, and 9-8 in his career in the circuit, he will measure in the eighth of Delray Beach to the Italian Matteo Arnaldi, fourth head of series.

He could also say goodbye to Delray Beach as leader of the career to Jeddah, which determines the classifieds at the end of the year to the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF. The finalist of this event in 2023 (p. With Fonseca) on Wednesday went up to No. 1 of the list thanks to his triumph against Walton in less than an hour and a half of play.

In other results of the day, the British Cameron Norrie, who is playing this event since he won it in 2022, advanced to the fourths defeated 7-6 (9), 6-2 to the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech, ninth preclassified. His next opponent will be local: Alex Michelsen or Michael Mmoh.

In addition, the American Marcos Giron beat his compatriot Ethan Quinn 6-3, 6-4 to establish a quarter of rooms with the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, who advanced after the non-presentation due to injury of his rival on Wednesday, the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka .

No. 56 of the world leads 1-0 the Lexus ATP Headtohead with Giron, fifth head of this week at the ATP 250 Florida.