Jarry wasted five match points, missed an incredible match and has not won for almost a year

Nicholas Jarry He once again added one more defeat to his credit. The Chilean, who is going through one of the most complicated moments of his career, lost in the first round of the qualy of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 after having five match points and it has been almost a year without being able to know victory.

The Chilean was facing a very tight match and against one of the seeded teams at this stage of the tournament. The Italian Francesco Maestrelli He had taken the first set, but the South American came back in the second and forced everything to the last set, which was so even that it had to be decided in the tie-breaker. And there the surprise occurred.

Despite having a four-point advantage in the tiebreaker, being 5 to 1, and then having five match points, the Italian became strong and came back on all the occasions in which he was on the verge of falling. After the last one, where the Chilean led 7 to 6, he did not gain any more points and the world number 114 came back to win 9 to 7.

This match became No. 11 for Jarry without knowing victory. The last one was in July 2025, at Wimbledon, where he beat Joao Fonseca in four sets. He would then add losses against Cameron Norrie, Botic Van de Zandschulp, Pedro Martínez, Kamil Majchrzak, Jakub Mensik, Tom Gentzsch, Rafael Jodar, Titouan Droguet, Jaime Faria and Dino Prizmic.

As for the rest of the South American tennis players on the first day of action of the qualy of Indian WellsThiago Tirante took a victory, as did the Peruvian Ignacio Buse. As for Fede Gómez (vs. Shintaro Mochizuki) and Nicolás Mejía (vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili) they could not advance.