Chelo Arévalo, straight to New Zealand for another challenge

A great start to the year. That's what Sansonetco had Selo Arevalo, who was already champion in seven days of January. This fills him with hope and enthusiasm to achieve a season as good as the one he achieved with his first title in 2024.

This Sunday, the country's number one racket won the ATP 250 title at the Hong Kong Open in China. The national team headed to Asian soil as champions and with this year's new partner, Croatia. Matt Pawick, With whom he makes a successful debut and with whom he prepares for the most important thing, which is the Australian Open next month.

Marcelo Arevalo is the doubles champion in Hong Kong

But that is now in the past. Soon, the national team packed its bags and started a new challenge this Tuesday. The Sonsonatecan is back in action and will play the last match before the season's first Grand Slam (starting on January 14) in Melbourne, for which he has been preparing with Pavic these past two weeks.

They will play like champions ATP 250 ASP Classic Auckland, New Zealand, the same as on a hard surface. His first round opponent was American Robert Galloway (ranked 48th in the world in doubles) and British Julian Cash (Fifty). At the very least, they hope to continue to get to know each other in their game and better themselves for AO.

Thus, Arévalo achieved another ATP Level 250 title in doubles. He has won eight ATP 250-level titles, winning at Hong Kong 2024. He won the first title in 2018 with the Mexican team. Miguel Reyes Varela, at the Los Cabos Open, Mexico. And with the Dutch Jean-Julien Roger Five wins from 2022 to 2023.

After the Asian finals, Arevalo and Pavic managed to secure four wins out of a possible four on a hard surface. They showed why they are the second seed in this match.

The last match of the tournament was against the number one pair Belgium Sander Gille and Joran Willigan, The ATP doubles ranked No. 25 defeated him 2–0, deciding the first set 7–6(3) and 6–4 in a tie-break. The match lasted for one hour and 30 minutes.

Both pairs lost serve in the first set, but in the tiebreaker, Cello and his partner broke serve only once and broke their opponents three times. In the second set, the Salvadorans and Europeans held their serve throughout the match and with a break from the Belgians, they were able to close out the match in their favor to keep the score at 5-4.

In terms of game statistics, the champions won 88% of the points on the first serve (38/43) and 64% of the points on the second (9/14). The performance converted 40% of break points (2/5), plus a maximum of eight points in a row and a maximum of three games in a row for his side.

Cello can move up the world doubles rankings with this win. Till yesterday it was at 19th position with 3,840 points. This week, he climbs three spots to No. 16.

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