Repeatedly defeated lower-ranked players, Čurić is drifting away from the main event of the tour

As we all know, from low to high, men's tennis tournaments are made up of Hope Tournaments, Challenger Tournaments, Tour, Grand Slam tournaments. Generally speaking, the higher the ranking, the stronger the strength; It is also easier to get the opportunity to play in high-level tennis tournaments. However, during this time, there was such a player who repeatedly lost to some low-ranked players. Such an encounter has caused this player to fall to the edge of the TOP100. Not only that, but he is also getting farther and farther away from the tour and the main draw of the Grand Slam. So, who exactly is this player? Where did he lose his tennis match? Let me take you to see it today.

That player is Croatian Čurić, who won his first career tour victory back in 2014; Not only that, but he also won his first Challenger tournament, his first career Grand Slam victory, and after reaching the semi-finals of his first career tour, Churchuriri was named the ATP Rookie of the Year that year. Since then, Čurić has been making progress for almost a decade. Even though he once fell to the bottom, he still relied on his ability to kill it back. In 2022, Churic sang all the way at the Cincinnati Masters, winning the first Masters title of his career.

However, time flies, and today's Čurić is no longer the same as he used to be for various reasons. Before the 2025 season in February, Čurić actually suffered a wave of four consecutive defeats. At that time, his world ranking had fallen out of the top 100. Thankfully, after that, Churic learned from the pain and sang all the way to the Challenger, winning 15 consecutive victories, winning three Challenger championships in a row, and finally recovering in the world rankings.

However, just when the vast majority of fans thought that Čurić would bounce back, in the second round of the Napoli Challenger, he faced three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka, and Čurić won only five games in two sets. Prior to this, Wawrinka had never won a Challenger in a row. At the time of the fight, the veteran's world ranking was nearly 50 places lower than that of Richu Rich, and such a loss was obviously difficult for many fans to accept.

After a surprise defeat to Wawrinka, Čurić moved to the Challenger Madrid, where he faced Hungary's Piros, who was nearly 200 places below him in the second round. Having the advantage of taking the lead in the first city, Churic suddenly became restrained. In the next match, Pirosh won two sets in a row to advance. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time since the 2025 season that Čurić has been reversed by his opponent after taking a first set.

As the saying goes, there must be two if there is one. Sure enough, a few days ago, in the decisive round of the ATP 500 Barcelona Open Qualifying Tournament, facing the American player Quinn, he took the next set first, and seized a good opportunity to advance; Once again, Čuric failed to take advantage of his chance, and his opponent won two sets in a row to miss the main draw of the ATP 500 Barcelona Open. And this player, the world ranking is also outside the TOP100. After losing to three lower-ranked players in a row, Čurić is getting farther and farther away from the main draw of the Tour and the Grand Slam. In the next game, if he can't find his form, I'm afraid he will fall out of the top 100 again.

Sports is a river and lake, and tennis is also a river and lake. I hope my article can bring some fresh information to all fans. Whether it's compliments or criticisms, maybe it's just to be able to get me far. That's it for today, and it continues tomorrow.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Yixin Jushi)