With Alcaraz and Djokovic and without Rafa Nadal for the first time in 18 years, the Parisian Grand Slam draw has been determined, which could still include three Argentine tennis players.
Roland Garrossecond Grand Slam tournament on the tennis calendar, raffled his main draw this Thursday have favorites Carlos Alcaraz in men and Iga Swiatek in women, without a super champion Rafael Nadal for the first time in 18 years and with nine Argentines have been confirmed so far. The French Open will be played from Sunday May 28 to Sunday June 11 at the complex located in the Parisian neighborhood of Bois de Boulogne, it will distribute prizes that will be a record of 43,900,000 euros (about 47 million dollars).
The Argentines who directly entered their ranking were Francisco Cerundolo (28); Sebastian Baez (44), Thomas Martin Etcheverry (46); Pedro Cachin (63); Diego Schwartzman (93); Frederick Coria (94) and Guido Pella (421), who will play in a protected rank. Among women, Argentina’s only representative is Rosario Nadia Podoroska (101).
In addition, this morning the player from La Plata joined Thiago Tirante (153), who passed the qualification, where they still compete in the third and final round Camilo Ugo Carabelli (150), Facundo Diaz Acosta (137) and Genaro Alberto Olivieri (227).
The draw for the main draw produced the following opponents for the Argentine tennis players in the first round: Rosario Podoroska (101) will face French Jessika Ponchet (123); “Fran” Cerúndolo (28) with the Spanish Jaume Munar (77), Báez (44) with the French Gael Monfils (386); Cachín (63) with Austrian Dominic Thiem (91) and “Fefo” Coria (94) against Croatian Borna Coric (16). “Little” Schwartzman (93) will face the Spaniard Bernabé Zapata Miralles (37), the left-hander from Bahia Pella (421) with the French Quentin Halys (87) and the Tirante (153) from La Medals will be drawn tomorrow after all classification matches.
As for the favorites, the Murcian Alcaraz (1) and the Serbian Novak Djokovic (3) could meet in a possible semifinal, because in the last ranking the number two in the world is the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2).
Thiago Tirante will play his first Grand Slam at Roland Garros after coming through qualifying
Argentine tennis player Thiago Tirante will play his first Grand Slam at Roland Garros starting next Sunday, after defeating the Swiss this Thursday in the third and final round of qualifying Dominic Stricker by 6-3, 1-6 and 6-1. Tirant, born in La Plata 22 years ago and ranked 153 in the ATP world ranking, defeated Stricker (116) after an hour and 50 minutes of play and thus he succeeded in a Grand Slam ranking for the first time . in his sixth attempt.
The man from La Plata did not get through to the “qualy” in the editions of the Australian Open of 2022 and 2023, nor in Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open last year.
The Argentine, this year’s champion at the Challenger de Morelos, in Mexico, will join eight of his compatriots who qualified directly for the Grand Slam through the rankings to be played in Paris from Sunday May 28 to Sunday June 11.
Source: Tycsports
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