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The national number one and 100th in the ATP ranking was not able to surpass the Peruvian qualifier, placed 171 in the world hierarchy, and gave up the qualification for the second round in two sets, with the partials of 6-4 and 6- 1, after an hour and 25 minutes.
João Sousa even got into the game well, but he wasted five break opportunities and, in the seventh game, he was broken (3-4), failing to take advantage of another opportunity when the opponent served to close, wasting a sixth break point.
In the second set, the Minho was broken three times in his service and ended up delivering the triumph and consummating his fourth consecutive defeat in the first round of a tournament this season, after the defeats in the Challenger of Antalya, ATP 250 of Córdoba and ATP 250 from Buenos Aires.
While Juan Pablo Varillas will face Federico Coria (85th ATP) in the next matchday, João Sousa, 31, remains unsuccessful in any 13 matches on the ATP Tour, with his last triumph going back to the Shanghai Masters 1,000. in October 2019.
