OEIRAS – Six Portuguese will compete in the main frame of the Oeiras Open 4. At the request of the draw, Gastao Elias e Louis Faria they are set to play on Monday, and there is room for the second round of the last Challenger held at Complexo Desportivo do Jamor, which is reason enough to “challenge” the two for a special preview.
“It’s always boring to play against a Portuguese, but this is one of the facets of tennis, because every week we compete and play the same tournaments, especially now that there are so many fewer of them. We were lucky to play the tournament at home and have a lot of Portuguese players in the main team, so duels like this are normal. “– said Elias, who added the quarterfinals, semifinals and final to Jamor in the previous weeks.
The latest results of a compatriot and the results achieved throughout his career are very present in the head of Faria, who in recent years began to share his court with him several times. “Gastao played the quarterfinals last week, and in the previous contenders he played in the final and semifinals, he was number 57. rating… It will be very difficult, but I will do my best and go out on the pitch to have fun. “, guaranteed, after claiming to have seen it “Often on TV.”
The praise is the same for both tennis players, but favoritism will be on one side of one of them: Gastan Elias. “I am the favorite and he will enter without pressure, which is always dangerous.”he warned, adding shortly thereafter “We trained together so many times that I think it makes Luis forget what I was and what I did in tennis, we talk so much with each other that it eventually disappears and makes me more of a contender than him, with which you must face. but I think the same. “
And since friends, friends, meetings are separated, the eldest of the two Portuguese wished “Great future” for the youngest, after this duel this Monday, it is important to start another week, which could mean another important climb in rating ATP. Finalist, semi-finalist and quarter-finalist of the three weeks of the ATP Challenger Tour in Jamora, the ex-top 60 of the ATP showed the good humor of custom when they were asked to take it one step further over the next few days, warning that the ladder could follow. so much of one side (title) as well as the other (early defeat) and that, therefore, it is necessary “Appreciate the opponents who are here.”
