Facundo Bagnis, from Santa Fe, is one of the nine Argentine players registered in the main draw of the Campinas Tennis Challenger, in Brazil, a contest that will begin this Monday and will distribute prizes of 53 thousand dollars.
The player from the town of Armstrong, located in position 112 in the ATP world ranking and third seed, will debut in the first round against the Kazakh Dmitry Popko (235).
In the list of duels against each other, the Argentine player leads the European 2-1, as a result of two triumphs in the challenger of Barcelona 2020 and Antalya 2021. The only victory of the born in Saint Petersburg but nationalized Kazakh occurred in Punta del Este 2018 .
In addition, Camilo Ugo Carabelli from Buenos Aires (118 and fourth favorite) will meet Chilean Gonzalo Lama (295) in the initial round. There were two previous clashes, with a win for each.
The one born in Buenos Aires, Facundo Mena (156), will have to examine the Indian Sumit Nagal (484).
The rest of the Argentine tennis players will face each other in first-round matches. Thus, Nicolás Kicker (183) and Juan Bautista Torres (238) from Buenos Aires will face each other, in the same way that Juan Pablo Ficovich (138), born in Berazategui, will run into Santiago Rodríguez Taverna (164), a native of Pillar.
In addition, Juan Manuel Cerúndolo from Buenos Aires (178) will have his debut against Genaro Olivieri from Braga (259). (Telam)
