Nicolás Jarry He went through the best moment of his career in 2024 when he reached the final of the Masters 1,000 of Rome back in May, in full tour on whipped land. He got the runner -up when he fell above all a Alexander Zverevwho gave no option to the Chilean tennis player and took the title by endorsing a 6-4 7-5.
After that great personal result and for Chilean tennis, it came to position itself as the number 16 in the ranking ATPbut quickly began to see how those positions declined for the health problems that he contracted after savoring professional success.
The 29 -year -old was sincere for the Chilean newspaper 'El Mercurio' To explain why of its fall in classification to positions away from the Top 100, and that its level was severely affected by a disease caused by stress, vestibular neuritis, an inflammation of a nerve located in the inner ear and that affects equilibrium and causes sudden dizziness.
“I was with great uncertainty because no doctor knew how to realize as soon as I would be recovered. It was very difficult, the worst semester of my life,” said a Jarry that did not win more than one consecutive match in the second half of the year. “I depressed when I returned to Chile Because I thought I would never recover the level I wanted. I didn't want to get out of bed and I had to talk to my psychiatrist, they were dark moments. ”
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The fact of going through those complicated months made him “learn to appreciate tennis. He knew he could spend a lot of time without winning matches, so he tried to have a good time on the track. It is a lesson that accompanies me until today.”
Jarry It is not yet fully recovered from that neuritis, but the episodes that suffer have decreased and gradually recover the level that made it reach the top. Despite falling into the first round of Masters of Cincinnati ante Pedro Martínez (1-6 6-4 6-3), the Chilean saw the light again when he reached the round of 16 in Wimbledon After passing the previous phase. He won six games until he fell to the place Cameron Norrie in a hard battle of 4h and 30 minutes (6-3 7-6 6-7 6-7 6-3).
