Daniel Altmaier, the 22-year-old rookie who has made more money in one week at Roland Garros than in his entire career

Daniel Altmaier

will never forget his first week at Roland Garros.

Neither sports nor economically.

The

German tennis player

, number

, has lived seven days of 'first times': his

his first victory, his

... And his first time in the

of one of the four great world tennis tournaments.

The

born athlete

has been sailing in the lower echelons of the ATP Rankings for years.

and has been slowly advancing in the rankings for many years by participating in

, always without making the leap to higher level competitions: 986th to finish 2014, 847th in December 2015, 404th in 2016 and 275th in 2016. He dropped again in the ranking due to several shoulder and back injuries, until he recovered sensations in 2019 and reached his best results at the beginning of 2020, with good performances in

tournaments

, the previous step to the elite.

This year he has played the preliminary phase of

, an ATP500, but did not manage to reach the main draw, and after the stoppage due to the coronavirus he has been seen in several Challengers, such as that of

(Italy), on clay, where he lost in semifinals before the Spanish promise

.

He repeated the semis last month at 'Aix en Provence', a tournament in the same category, before facing

.

In Paris, he overcame the two qualifying matches and made his Grand Slam debut.

In the first round he beat

(7-6, 6-4, 6-4), in the second round his compatriot

, world number 32, by 6-3, 7-6 and 6-3, and in the third round he returned to leave his rival to zero.

This time the Italian

, eighth best tennis player in the world, by 6-2, 7-6 and 6-4.

That is, in his first time in a Grand Slam, he has overcome the first three matches of the tournament without giving up a single set, beating a veteran like Feliciano, a top-50 like Struff and a top-8 like Berrettini.

All to accumulate a total of

in just a few days, a figure higher than what he had earned in all his years as a tennis player:

And now, Pablo Carreño

Whatever happens, Altmaier will finish Roland Garros with the best ATP ranking of his life and with the most money of his career.

In the round of 16 awaits the Spanish

, semifinalist of the last US Open.

The Asturian beat

in four sets

(6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4) and seeks to perform the best Roland Garros of his life.

Whoever wins both will have a 'jackpot' in the quarterfinals, if everything goes true to normal: Novak Djokovic.

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