This Sunday the South American Championship for Sub 14 Teams was raffled, which has the Fuegian Valentin Garay as racket number # 1 of the men’s branch escorted by Romeo Arcuschin and Mateo Carballo. Those commanded by Gonzalo Presson open Group B against Bolivia from 10 (ARG).
USHUAIA.- From June 21 to 26, Asunción will host the continent’s most important competition in the Under 14 category: the South American Team Championship qualifying for the World Cup to be played in August in Prostejov, Czech Republic.
Sara Conde, Zoe Lazar and Candela Vázquez, on the girls’ side; and the Fuegian Valentin Garay, Romeo Arcuschin and Mateo Carballo, on the men’s side, will have the privilege of representing Argentina in the return to the competition after the suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The captains will be Gerónimo Degreef and Gonzalo Presson; and the physical trainer, Ignacio Menchón. Franco Squillari, Director of Development of the AAT, will also accompany the delegation in Paraguay, where the competitions will be developed under strict compliance with the rules set forth by local authorities and the South American Tennis Confederation.
After training both Saturday and Sunday on the field where the tournament will be held, Garay expressed his happiness for “fulfilling a great dream” and thanked “all the people of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, who accompany him and provide their support” for that can represent our country.
In the captains draw, Argentina in the male branch was placed in Zone B along with Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay, while the other zone will have the candidate Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Brazil.
It should be noted that the albiceleste, with Garay as a doubles player, was champion together with Colombia in the COSAT Sub 12 Cup held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra at the beginning of 2019 as the last antecedent of this nature.
This Monday, starting at 10 AM (ARG), they will face Bolivia in the first qualifying match, seeking a win against the seed number four in the competition.
Valentine and his great present
From the leap in the leadership of his sports career with Etchart, Valu participated in his first professional tournaments in San Bernardo, Dolores and Tandil with just 13 years getting the second round in singles and final in doubles, making great matches against players with ATP ranking despite his young age.
Prior to the start of the South American Tour, COSAT tests positive for COVID-19, which forces the trip to Paraguay to be canceled for the first date, but after more than 10 days without training, it flies to Brazil to continue with the planned schedule.
He obtained his first victory and points for the COSAT Ranking in Porto Alegre and then returned to Argentina to face the first National G1 Sub 14 where he reached the final without losing a set, a match that he cannot dispute due to his imminent flight to Colombia.
In his first stop in Cali (COL) he performed a superb performance, losing in the semifinals with the No. 1 in the ranking and at home in both singles and doubles.
As if this were not enough, fly to Guayaquil (ECU) for the last appointment of the tour and repeat the semifinals in singles falling with the best in the continent to culminate in 9th place in the COSAT South American Ranking, 7th in the race to qualify for the European Tour, having participated in 4 of the 6 tournaments set out in the calendar.
He became champion of the Regional Sub 14 of Cariló (ARG) in singles and established himself as the best in the country after playing another huge tournament in the second National G1 of the AAT Circuit.
Reaches the final in singles and, after the suspension due to rain, is established as # 1 in the National Ranking endorsed by the Argentine Tennis Association in the Under 14 category.
