Rosario Podoroska (40) start her way against Helvic Bencic.
Diego Schwartzman face the Chinese Yen Hsun Lu and Nadia Podoroska the Swiss Belinda Bencic in their respective debuts in the opening round of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year starting on Sunday in Paris, as determined by the draw of the main draw in which the two best Argentine tennis players must defend the semifinals they reached in the last edition.
In that context, the “Little” Schwartzman, tenth in the ATP world ranking, head the Argentine delegation that also has Federico Delbonis, Guido Pella, Federico Coria, Juan Ignacio Londero, Facundo Bagnis and among the ladies Podoroska, the seven directly entered, while three others will seek this Friday they will pass the qualifying phase: Marco Trungelliti and the brothers Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerndolo.
The contest, which will distribute prizes for 17,171,000 euros and will be played in the complex located in the charming Parisian area of Bois de Boulogne, from May 30 to June 13, count on the great attractions that will be the Spanish Rafael Nadal, the most winner in history with 13 trophies, the Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer.
The three legends of world tennis were included in the same part of the table, an unprecedented fact in a Grand Slam. That configuration was made possible by the fact that Nadal, world number 3, is not located in the lower sector, and was located in the upper one like Djokovic, world number one and first seed, and Federer, eighth seeded.
As for the Argentines, the “Peque” Schwartzman start his campaign between the Taiwanese Lu (679) and if it happens it will be the French Adrian Mannarino (36) or the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene (54), while Rosario Podoroska (40) start her way against Helvtica Bencic (11) and if she wins, go in the second round against the Russian Daria Kasatkina (36) or the Japanese Misaki Doi (79).
The “Peque” Schwartzman, tenth in the ATP world ranking, will lead the Argentine delegation
Schwartzman He must defend the points he won in the 2020 edition that ran to the last week of September and the first of October, in a modification of his traditional date due to the coronavirus pandemic, with a great performance until he ran into Nadal. , while Podoroska goes through the same situation.
The “Peque” surprised when she went through the “qualy” last year and was installed among the four best, until she lost in the semifinals against the Polish Iga Swiatek (9), then champion of the women’s team of the contest.
Meanwhile, Rosario “Fefo” Coria (96) will play in the initial round against Spanish Feliciano Lpez (61) and then win against the Italian “top ten” Matteo Berrettini (9) or a tennis player emerged from the classification, While Armstrong’s Santa Fe “Facu” Bagnis (101) will be measured with the French Benjamin Bonzi (115) and then play with the German Jan Lennard Struff (42) or the Russian Andrey Rublev (7).
The Delbonis tile (52), semifinalist this week at the ATP 250 in Belgrade, will make his debut against Moldovan Radu Albot (88) and if he surpasses it, he will play in the second round the Spanish Pablo Andjar (68) or the Austrian Dominic Thiem (4), current champion of the US Open.
The Bahian Pella (59) play against a rival emerged from the classification and if they pass it it will be the turn of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (17) or the American Marcos Girn (82), while the cordobs of Jess Mara Londero (100) face the Chilean Cristian Garn (23). ) and to be successful, the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori (74) or a tennis player emerged from the classification awaits him.
In the “qualy” this Friday, Santiago Trungelliti (236) will define his entry into the main draw against the American MacKenzie McDonald (118), Juan Manuel Cerndolo (147) against the Swiss Henri Laaksonen (150) and Francisco Cerndolo (116) against the Italian Alessandro Giannessi (159).
Among the favorites, “Rafa” Nadal (3) debut against Australian Alexei Popyrin (62), Djokovic (1) against American Tennys Sandgren (66) and Federer (8) against a tennis player emerged from the classification.
“Rafa” Nadal (3) debut against Australian Alexei Popyrin.
In the ladies’ box, Australian Barty (1) play American Bernarda Pera (70), Japanese Osaka (2) vs. Romanian Patricia Mara Tig (63) and the veteran Serena Williams (8), with 23 Grand Slam titles and the illusion of winning another at 39, will face the Romanian Irina Begu in the opening round. (74).
The Polish Swiatek (9), surprising champion in the 2020 edition, will play in the initial round against the Slovenian Kaja Juvan (101) and the Spanish Garbie Muguruza (13), champion of Roland Garros in the 2016 edition, will be measured with the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (81).
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