The main rackets of the country, with the exception of Christian Garin, will have an activity in Europe from this Monday. While the last ATP monarch from Santiago will travel to Switzerland, the Canadian-born one and the man from Chillanejo will play the qualifications for Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam of the season.
A week full of challenges will see the main national tennis players on the circuit, who will see action in Switzerland and France.
The first to enter the field will be Nicolás Jarry (56), who will face this Monday at 5:30 a.m. in Chile the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (46) in the first round of the ATP 250 in Geneva (Switzerland). rival with whom he is 1-2 in the history of confrontations.
Latest Chile Open winner arrives preceded by three straight losses after losing in his second match at the ATP 500 in Barcelona and then in his debut at the Masters 1000 in Madrid and Rome, the latter event won by Russian Daniil Medvedev (3rd).
If he triumphs against the Balkans, the grandson of Jaime Fillol will have to face the winner of the engagement between Italian Stefano Travaglia (294th) and Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor (36th) .
For its part, Alejandro Tabilo (190°) and Tomás Barrios (143°) It will be the other two nationals who will see the action this week. And their duels are no less difficult: both will face the second Grand Slam qualifier of the year, Roland Garros .
The native of Canada will also make his debut this Monday – at one hour to be confirmed – in the classifications of the Parisian event, by facing the promising 19-year-old Italian, Lucas Nardi (151°) in what will be the first meeting between the two.
Tabilo has just lost in the first round of the Challenger in Tunis (Tunisia), although the previous week he won the second title of his career in the Challenger also disputed in Francavilla (Italy). .
In the event of leaving the Italian on the road, the Toronto native will face the winner of the key who he will encourage Croatian Borna Gojo (102nd) and Bosnian Damir Dzumhur (172nd) .
Eventually, Thomas Barrios (143°) he will have to wait until Tuesday to enter the field. The chillanejo will face the Slovak Jozef Kovalik (141°) with whom he recorded three previous duels (two victories for the Chilean), in a match which has yet to confirm its schedule.
The third national racket comes from a fall in the second round of the Challenger of Tunis, although before he managed to chain 12 consecutive victories which allowed him to stay with the tournaments of the same category in San Luis Potosí (Mexico) and Florianópolis (Brazil) .
If he wins over the Slovak, his next challenge will be the Taiwanese Tung-Lin Wu (181°) or the Brazilian Felipe Meligeni Alves (175°) .
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