2022 is being a great year for Mexican athletes in multiple disciplines, but the last few weeks have seen unprecedented achievements in the national sport.
Fernanda Contreras He has signed the best month of his career. On May 20, the tennis player from Potosí got the ticket to her first Grand Slam of her career. On May 24 she became the fourth Mexican tennis player to win a match of the big four in the Open Era. After Roland Garros and despite never having played on grass, won all three of his qualifiers at Wimbledon and be in the main draw, the first Aztec racket to do so since 1996.
Also in tennis Giuliana Olmos was crowned in the doubles of the Madrid Masters 1000.
in motorsports, Czech Price He already has the second-highest points haul of his F1 career with half a season to go. He is second in the drivers’ championship and he won Formula 1’s most distinctive race, the Monaco Grand Prix.
It was not the only triumph of Mexican motorsports in the recent past. Pato O’Ward open their palms in the IndyCar in Alabama on May 1, on the way to renew with McLaren and maintain options to reach F1. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Robert Gonzalez won the LMP2 category alongside Will Stevens and Antnio Flix da Costa, while Daniel Surez won for the first time in NASCAR in Sonoma.
In the NBAa Mexican had never even reached the Finals. Juan Toscano-Anderson did it and his Warriors beat the Boston Celtics in six gamesrestarting the dynasty and putting the green, white and red at the top of world basketball for the first time.
In Major League Baseball, two new stars have emerged. Alejandro Kirk is the best hitting ctcher in the Majors and is on his way to being the first Mexican catcher in the Stars game. But in the last days, isaac walls He has overshadowed him, achieving a mark almost never seen in the MLB: hit a home run four consecutive at-bats against the Yankees, something that only the legendary Bo Jackson had achieved since 1961, being the first Rays player to hit four homers in a series against the Manhattan Muls.
Soccer also brought a new European league for the Mexican legion. Edson Álvarez won the two-time championship with Ajax en la Eredivisie,
A day that was bad in the ring was very good in the octagon. On the night of May 7, when Canelo Álvarez fell to Dmitry Bivol, Mexicans shone at UFC 274Tracy Cortez, Lupita Godinez and CJ Vergara they won their bouts in the preliminaries of the event in Phoenix to move up the ranks of their division.
