It could not be for Rosario Renzo Olivo in his experience in the United States. This Wednesday he fell to the Belgian Bergs in New York with partials of 6-4 and 6-2 and was left out of qualifying for the fourth and last Grand Slam of the year, which will be played in New York from next Monday.
The other Argentine who was left out in the preliminary stage of the North American grand slam was Nicolás Kicker: fell 6-3, 6-7, 4-0 and retired in the third set against the Kazakh Kukushkin.
The good news for Argentines was the triumph of Andrea Collarini, who advanced to the second round of qualifying to enter the US Open main draw. He beat Italian Marco Moroni 7-6 (7-4) and 6-4
Collarini, born in New York, United States, and nationalized Argentine, is ranked 211 in the ATP world ranking and beat the Italian Moroni (240), after exactly 2 hours of play.
The Argentine will play in the second round of qualifying against Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (138, who today eliminated Marco Trungelliti from Santiago (180) by beating him 6-4, 6-4, after 1 hour and 20 minutes of contest.
Later, Facundo Bagnis (106) from Santa Fe faced the Taiwanese Wu Tung Lin (183) and, if he beats him, he will be played in the second round by the Japanese Kaichi Uchida (169) or the Israeli Dudi Sela (no ranking).
Finally, Facundo Mena from Buenos Aires (133), was also measured at the last minute with the Russian Alexander Shevchenko (166) and, if he passes, he will then go against the Portuguese Gastao Elías (199) or the Dutch Gijs Brouwer (184).
Among the Argentines who appeared yesterday at the start of the “qualy” Only Federico Delbonis and María Lourdes Carlé passed the initial round.
Azuleño Delbonis (136) beat Hungarian Zsombor Piros (158) 7-6 (12-10) and 6-0, and will play his next match tomorrow against American Ethan Quinn (506).
In the case of accessing the last round, Delbonis will play in that instance against the Turkish Altug Celikbilek (234) or the Dutch Jesper De Jong (212).
Among the ladies, Carlé (175) beat the Austrian Sinja Kraus (209) 6-3, 6-3, and her next rival in the US Open ranking will be the Spanish Cristina Bucsa (119).
In the case of accessing the last round, the tennis player born in the Buenos Aires city of Daireaux 22 years ago will meet the Chinese Lin Zhu (74) or the American Sachia Vickery (181).
The New York Grand Slam will raise the curtain next Monday with the presence of seven Argentine rackets who entered directly: Diego Schwartzman (16), Francisco Cerúndolo (27), Sebastián Báez (37), Pedro Cachín (66), Federico Coria (78) , Tomas Etcheverry (86) and Rosarina Nadia Podoroska, currently in box 190 but will use a protected ranking for having been injured for almost a whole year.
