Argentine tennis has all its expectations placed on Nadia Podoroska, Diego Schwartzman and Federico Coria, who will play this Friday for the third round of Roland Garros, the French Grand Slam on brick dust, after the elimination that Guido Pella suffered this Thursday against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta.
Rosario Podoroska, who at 23 is living her best week as a professional, will appear (not before 7, Argentina time) against the Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the second shift of court 14 of the Parisian complex.
The “Peque” Podoroska, 131 in the WTA ranking, comes from beating the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva (27) by 6-3, 1-6 and 6-2 to become the first Argentine tennis player to go to the third round of Roland Garros after six years (in 2014 Paula Ormaechea had done it from Santa Fe).
The Argentine, coming from qualifying, will face a rival who appears 161 in the world but who has just eliminated the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (14), recent finalist of the US Open.
Beyond the result that Podoroska obtains against Schmiedlova, the Argentine who will represent the country in the next Tokyo Olympic Games made sure to climb in the ranking to at least 102nd place. If she wins, she could enter the Top 100.
The Rosario Federico Coria (99) and also passes – like Podoroska – his happiest days in tennis, will play in the third turn (after Podoroska-Schmiedlova and not before 8.30) on court 14 against the promising young Italian Jannik Sinner (75).
Coria, Guillermo’s younger brother (finalist at Roland Garros 2004), achieved a great victory in the second round against the French Benoit Paire (26th in the world) and for the first time reached the third round of a Grand Slam tournament.
Not before 9 in the morning, Diego Schwartzman (14) will face the Slovak Norbert Gombos (106) in the third turn of the Simonne Mathieu court, the third in importance of the complex located in the Parisian neighborhood of Bois de Boulogne.
“Peque”, finalist in the Masters 1000 in Rome, a tournament where he achieved the first victory in ten matches against the Spanish Rafael Nadal and fell in the final against the Serbian Novak Djokovic, never played against Gombos, 30, on the professional circuit .
The 28-year-old “Peque” Schwartzman already improved his performance last year, when he was eliminated in his second match against Leonardo Mayer from Corrientes, reached the third round for the tenth time in a Grand Slam and reached 160 victories in his career (half got them in brick dust), where he accumulates three ATP titles.
The Argentine seems set to repeat his best production in Paris, which was in the 2018 edition when Nadal, a 12-time winner of the trophy, stopped him in the quarterfinals.
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