Carlos Alcaraz You already know that this Thursday, starting at 10:30 p.m. in Spain, four hours less in Argentina, will debut in the second round of the ATP in Buenos Aires with Camilo Ugo Carabelli. There are no precedents between the two.
The local tennis player, 134th in the ranking at 24 years old, has earned this Tuesday the right to face the first favorite in the draw thanks to his victory against Juan Pablo Varillas, 7-6(5) and 6-4. It is only Carabelli’s third victory as a professional, who comes from the previous phase where he eliminated Jaume Munar and Hugo Dellien.
Far is the stage in which even He became a ball boy for the competition and sneaked into the area reserved for VIPs. His second ATP triumph also came last year at the Open 250 in the Argentine capital when he beat the Colombian Galán. The first was against Aslan Karatsev, at Roland Garros 2022.
Camilo lives three blocks from the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, venue of the event, and confessed in the last edition that he traveled to the tournament by bicycle. If there is anyone who knows the clues of the game, it is him.
“Playing against Alcaraz on Thursday is a reward for how I have been working. I am playing well and I have just won a challenger. My coach Carlos Berlocq is leading me,” declared the Argentine in conclusion. He refers to the one held in Piracicaba. “I think I’m the only guy who went through ball boy and is now in the main draw. Martín (the director) had to take me out of the players’ room because he made me play Play“.
His family hosts future racket prospects who are not natives of Buenos Aires: “My mother had that idea and she has been doing that for 10 years.” In the last edition of the Australian Open, where he lost in the last round of qualifying, he trained with Daniil Medvedev, Frances Tiafoe and Jannik Sinner, later champion: “I was surprised by how hard Sinner hit the ball and how humble he is. because he asked me things and talked to me a lot.
When I was little I was a ball boy and my goal was to sneak into the VIP every day
Camilo Ugo Carabelli
Goodbye to Carballés
Spanish tennis lost one of its three representatives on the first day with the defeat of Roberto Carballés at the hands of Tomas Etcheverry, sixth seed, 6-4 and 6-1.
2024-02-13 20:39:43
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