Two Chilean tennis players will seek their ticket to Paris in the Roland Garros Junior Series

From April 3 to 7, the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault will be played on the clay courts of Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis, a traditional club from São Paulo, recognized as an exclusive Roland Garros club in Brazil. The competition will have two Chilean representatives, Benjamín Pérez and Agustina Soto.

For its second edition in the capital São Paulo, the tournament, one of the most important of its category on the continent, is the result of a collaboration between the French Tennis Federation (FFT), the South American Tennis Confederation (Cosat) and the Brazilian Tennis Confederation (CBT).

The scale achieved, the experience promoted among young players and the possibility for the winners to obtain wild cards to compete at Roland Garros Junior, in Paris, alongside the world’s main young talents are attributes highlighted by Amélie Mauresmo, director of Roland Garros.

“The experience we have in organizing international tournaments allows us to offer the best young people in Latin America a high-level event. In addition to allowing these young tennis players to acquire professional experience, The winners receive a wild card for the 2024 edition of Roland Garros Junior. Thanks to the partnership with COSAT & CBT, we bring together the best talents from Latin America, a place with a long tradition of revealing players on the international tennis scene, especially on clay,” said the former tennis player.

This edition of the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault It will once again be made up of 32 athletes, 16 boys and 16 girls, all under the age of 16, from 11 different countries. (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) and will be broadcast exclusively daily in Brazil via the ESPN and Star+ channels for all of South America.

Aymeric Labaste, director of international development for the French Tennis Federation (FFT), underlines the greatness of the event: “The agreement we signed with Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis will allow us to raise the level of the tournament and to recreate Roland-Garros. universe in São Paul. The fact that we have Juan Martín del Potro as an ambassador for the competition sums up the high level of what we produce for these young people. Tennis is also a question of transmission, of advice and Juan Martín brings invaluable value.

Unlike the 2023 edition, instead of a direct elimination format from the start of the competition, in 2024 the athletes will be divided into four groups of four players. The main objective of this change is to increase the time spent on the field and, therefore, the chances of each participant to achieve the main objective: the wild card for Paris.

“Our ambition is to position the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault as a benchmark and, at the same time, to support the next generation of Latin American players. This is why we made the decision to adopt this format, called Round Robin, this year to ensure that each junior plays at least three matches. Labaste emphasizes

In addition to the experience of being able to play Roland Garros Junior in the French capital, the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault will also offer the 32 qualified tennis players the meeting and advice of Juan Martín Del Potro as another way to promote their development . opportunities for players and young athletes.

The Argentine tennis player, third in the ATP rankings, double Olympic medalist and semi-finalist at Roland-Garros (2009 and 2018), will be the ambassador of the competition for the second time.