With the update of the international ranking of the Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP), Lautaro Midón (17 years old) entered the ranks yesterday. The young tennis player obtained his first two points in the classification of the Challenger of Buenos Aires, after winning in the first round and thus occupies the 1518 position.
Midon’s victory over Maximiliano Estevez in the first round of qualifying 7-6 (5), 2-6 and 6-1 gave another imprint on their commitments for the remainder of the season.
Days ago, the tennis player from Corrientes met with the Secretary of Sports of the Province, Jorge Terrile, to whom he advanced the steps to follow after the victory at the Palermo Racket Club in Buenos Aires. He will face a tour of Mexico, then he will appear at the Pan American in Colombia representing Argentina and will appear at the Orange Bowl in Miami, United States. It should be remembered that this last competition is intended for minor players and Argentine and world tennis players, who currently work in the professional field, passed through the competition.
Although there are no details in which Mexican competition will compete in the next month, the truth is that in the northern country it is planned that three competitions for minors will be held. These are J5 of the State of Mexico (from November 8 to 13), J1 of Guadalajara (from November 15 to 20) and JA de Merida (from November 22 to 27).
Regarding the Junior Pan American, the continental competition will start on November 25 in the city of Cali, Colombia, and will run until December 5.
The tennis in the Colombian competition is scheduled to compete from November 29. The Corrientes tennis player will be present there along with the Argentine team.
The rest
Argentine Diego Schwartzman fell to 16th yesterday. position in the world tennis rankings and was below the Swiss legend Roger Federer (15), who fell for the second consecutive week after leaving the “top ten” last Monday.
Federer resigned four positions and precedes “Peque”, for whom the points of the final reached in the ATP in Antwerp were not enough for the promotion of the Canadian Denis Shapovalov and the British Cameron Norrie, champion of the last Masters 1000 in Indian Wells.
The Italian Jannik Sinner, winner of the Argentine in the definition of the Belgian tournament, rose two places and placed eleventh, on the threshold of access to the “top ten” who only had one castling between eighth and ninth.
The order of this privileged group is as follows: 1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia); 2) Daniil Medvedev (Russia); 3) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece); 4) Alexander Zverev (Germany); 5) Rafael Nadal (Spain); 6) Andrey Rublev (Russia); 7) Matteo Berrettini (Italy); 8) Casper Ruud (Norway); 9) Dominic Thiem (Austria) and 10) Hubert Hurkacz (Poland).
In the “top 100” are five other Argentines: Federico Delbonis (41, -1); Federico Coria (74, -6); Guido Pella (80, +2); Facundo Bagnis (81) and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (94, +8).
As for the Corrientes legion, Ignacio Monzón, who for the first time entered the main draw of a Challenger contest in Buenos Aires, was the one who advanced the most in the ranking. It now ranks 927, moving up 80 spots.
For his part, Agustín Velotti, who decided to end his season as he has injuries to his wrist and elbow, now occupies position 440.
