The jewel of national tennis is from Mar del Plata and is 17 years old. At the moment it is ranked 1105 in the WTA ranking and is one step away from being among the four best rackets of the last Grand Slam of the year in its category.
Argentine tennis is celebrating and has a future. Already with no Argentine racket in competition in the main tables of the US Open, appear Solana Sierra, the greatest promise of women’s national tennis. With only 17 years old, and a native of Mar del Plata, ranked in the top eight in the American junior competition in the hot and fast concrete of New York, after leaving on the road to Matilda Mutavdzic in three sets by 3-6, 6-4 and 7-6 (7-4).
After bitter drinks in their presentations in Roland Garros and Wimbledon, the contest that Solana likes the most arrived and she managed to stand out. “I am a fairly aggressive player, who always tries to make the point and go up to the net to win it. My best shot is the backhand.”, the young tennis player told Clarín.
The journey to get to where he is was not easy at all. In the first match of her absolute debut in the tournament, Solana Sierra defeated the local team without too much trouble. Sarah Hammer for 6-3 and 6-1 after a little over an hour of play. In the next instance, he had to face the Spanish Ane Mintegi Del Olmo, who is the last winner of the Wimbledon Juniors and current world number 5 in the category. However, Sierra showed great poise against such a rival and with great solvency He was able to reverse a first set that fell 4-6 after he won them 7-5 and 6-3 in the later ones. Now he has to face the American Elvina Kalieva to keep dreaming and reach the semifinals of the American competition.
The Mar del Plata pearl is trained by Bettina Fulco and, according to those who know her, He tried various sports before finding his true passion: swimming, horseback riding and dancing were some of the disciplines he experimented with before taking up the racket, almost by chance. During a family vacation, her dad rented a court to rally for a while and, seeing that Solana was very well coordinated, he opted to take her to take some private lessons.
Her natural talent for wielding the racket with great ease made her stand out from a very young age. Nevertheless, It was in 2019 when she became the player with the greatest future and projection in our country. In that year, Sierra managed to raise two titles in grade 5 (J5) tournaments, one in Lambare (Paraguay) at the end of july and another in Córdoba, a week later. Also, in the course of said season began to play the professional circuit of the ITF (Women’s ITF) and reached the semifinals at the W15 in Buenos Aires.
Like everyone else, last year, thanks to the global pandemic caused by the Coronavirus, he had to go through various difficulties, but managed to win his tthird junior title, at JB1 in Brasilia. In this 2021, he played the final in the Lambare’s J1 and semis in Porto Alegre’s J1 and, at the end of May, reached the semifinal for the first time in a competition of the women’s circuit of the ITF, in the W15 of Santa Margarita de Montbui.
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