The last of Paire: does not raise his head and falls with a 17-year-old

Benoit Paire has once again demonstrated in the Santiago de Chile Tournament why he is one of the most irregular tennis players on the ATP circuit. The Frenchman, who started as the second seed of the tournament, was surprised by the young Danish Holger Rune, 17 years old and 410 of the ATP ranking, who overcame him 6-2 and 6-3 in the second round of the tournament without too much trouble.

The start of the 2021 season is being very hard for Paire, since of the seven games he has played in the singles table this season, he has only added one victory (against Nicolás Jarry in the second round of the Córdoba Open) for six defeats, counting the last one against Rune in Santiago.

The controversial Paire's streak is even worse since the return of tennis after the hiatus due to the pandemic. In the last 14 games he has played since he resumed activity in the Paire circuit, he has added two victories to 12 defeats.

However, in this time the Frenchman has been the protagonist due to his constant out-of-tone. In the 'bubble' of New York Paire retired before Borna Coric in the Masters 1.000 of Cincinnati when it lost by 6-0 and 1-0 before being left out of the US Open for testing positive for coronavirus. On his return at the 1000 Masters in Rome he took it with the schedules and the chair umpire and eAt the 1,000 Masters in Hamburg he announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus again after his match against Casper Ruud. In the recent tournament in Buenos Aires Paire again left everyone stunned with his disrespect for the chair umpire and even spitting on the court. We will have to wait for Paire to put an end to this losing streak of results and return to the news for his sporting achievements instead of for his eccentricities.