The 22-year-old from La Plata defeated Swiss Dominic Stricker 6-3, 1-6 and 6-1 and entered the main draw for the first time in one of the four major tournaments of the season.
Argentine tennis player Thiago Tirante play him 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 6-1while their countrymen Facundo Bagnis, Renzo Olivo and Camilo Ugo Carabelli lost and were eliminated.
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 cross the “quality” at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Australian Open, and also at 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.
Direct entrants are Francisco Cerundolo (28); Sebastián Báez (44), Tomás Martín Etcheverry (46); Pedro Cachin (63); Diego Schwartzman (93); Federico Coria (94) and Guido Pella (421), who will play in a protected rank. Among women, Argentina’s only representative is Rosario Nadia Podoroska (101).
For his part, Facundo Bagnis (124) from Santa Fe lost in the third and final round of “qualification” with the Spaniard Pedro Martínez (135) 2-6, 7-5 and 6-0 after two hours and 13 minutes. game, and will not participate in the Parisian Grand Slam. The same happened to Camilo Ugo Carabelli (150), who fell to Moldovan Radu Albot (111) 6-7 (2-7), 6-4, 6-1 in two hours and 25 minutes. Olivo (259) also lost to Chinese Juncheng Shang (200) 6-3, 2-6 and 6-3 in two hours and 10 minutes of play.
Two other Argentine tennis players will try to access the main draw from the classification: Facundo Diaz Acosta and Genaro Alberto Olivieri, who will play tomorrow
Tomorrow, Facundo Díaz Acosta (137) will face Austrian Sebastián Ofner (118) in the third and final round, and Genaro Alberto Olivieri (227) from Braga will face Bulgarian Adrián Andreev (214).
Source: Tycsports
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