A few weeks ago, Leonardo Mayer announced his retirement from professional tennis. At 34, he took a step to the side and began to walk for other goals. In those same days, Lautaro Midón (17 years old and the same initials of “Leo”, LM), was notified of the wild card to play in the “qualy” of the Challenger in Buenos Aires.
Midón did not shrink and took his first match at this level, against Maximiliano Estévez by 7-6, 2-6 and 6-1.
And so he added his first two historical points in the ATP rankings that allow him to make this week, his first appearance in the ranking. It appears in the position 1518 ° after reaching the second round of the “qualy” of the Buenos Aires tournament.
After being eliminated in singles and doubles, Midón wrote on his instagram account: “It was an incredible week, playing my first challenger at home. Getting my first ATP points. I can’t say more than thank you all. Especially to my family already all the team of the association that helps me to improve “. In addition, the Corrientes added, “Huge thanks to all my coaches, those who were and those who are. Starting tomorrow to think about what is coming. Thank you to my sponsors for continuing to support my career.”
And the youth is the youngest Argentine of the current Argentine legion that appears with a ranking. But it is the 14th of the Correntino tennis players who in the last 30 years have been able to add points and be ranked for a few weeks.
This list of Corrientes was started by Juan Ignacio Garat (at the beginning of the 90s), continued by Sebastián Decoud, improved by Leonardo Mayer himself (he was 21st in the world) and was given relevance by Agustín Velotti, Martín Ríos Benítez and Ignacio Monzon.
In addition, seven other tennis players from this province were able to get revenue from the friction of futures and regional tours and were part of the ATP seed: José Luis Desena, José María Paniagua, Armando Javier Boschetti, Santiago Celia, Juan Pablo Cenoz, Octavio Volpi and Luciano Tacchi .
Mayer (286 °, recently retired), Velotti (440 °), Monzón (927 °), Tacchi (1266 °) and Midón (1518 °) are the Corrientes that appear this week in the ATP ranking.
By
Mariano Blanco
