Mexico City / 01.06.2022 17:09:56
Fernanda Contreras continues to extend the history of the Contreras family in the mexican tennis. At the age of 24, the athlete managed to settle in the tournament Roland Garros in singles to thus become the sixth Mexican to play one of the four main tennis tournaments, winning on her debut.
This edition of the Roland Garros was for Fernanda the first Grand Slam. The Mexican fell 6-0 6-3 in the second round to 20th-seeded Daria Kasatkina, who was lethal with 22 game winners and managed to break all six chances she had in the main draw match she agreed to after three wins.
“That tournament is very important, I think we are the only ones. she played very wellto have qualified is important and he has done it in all the tournaments”, Francisco Contreras, his grandfather and historical former tennis player, said in an interview.
Pancho Contreras is recognized for representing Mexico in international tournamentsthe most important was the Davis cupwhere he formed the Mexican team that remained runner-up in the 1962 edition; In addition, he was a double medalist at the Pan American Games in São Paulo 1963.
With 89 years of age, Fernanda’s grandfather remembered for halftime that little girl who was a fan of white sports. She and her sister Raquel de Ella practiced at Deportivo Chapultepec, but Fernanda was more inclined towards a professional career in sports unlike her sister.
“They lived in my house, they have always been restless. Fernanda was always very fond of tennis, she played it since she was little, her sister the same, but she dedicated herself more to the study. They went to Deportivo Chapultepec and then they went to live in Texas where she continued to play, she loves tennis.”
Currently, Pancho is in bed, but this did not prevent him from watching Fernanda’s games and how her time at Roland Garros catapulted her granddaughter from a position of 225 in the WTA ranking to 158, enough to continue writing the history of the Contreras.
“You can now play in any tournament in the world, you no longer need to qualify. May he receive a huge congratulations, not only for qualifying, but because he already has the greatest proof of any tennis player for having qualified and advancing (in a Grand Slam like Roland Garros).”
The life of Fernanda Contreras
In addition to being a tennis player, Fernanda is a Mechanical Engineer from Vanderbilt Universitywhere he won an intercollegiate championship and had a 44-win season for just 10 losses.
His path in professional tennis began in 2019 with the victory in an ITF of 15 thousand dollars in Cancun and another of 25 thousand dollars in Texas, where she defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez, current US Open runner-up, in the final.
