He Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-71st Conde de Godó Trophy officially opens its doors this Saturday. The historic twelve-time champion Rafa Nadal will be the innocent hand of the main draw draw, which will be held this Saturday at one in the afternoon.
There will be six places left to fill with the players who pass the two qualifying rounds of the qualifying phase. There will be twenty-four candidates, with the possibility that there will be a repechage in the form of a ‘lucky loser’ (lucky loser, in the second round) if there is a drop in the big draw once it is drawn up.
Among the candidates, eight Spanish tennis players, as well as young Chinese promises Juncheng Shang and jordan Abdullah Shelbayh.
Although there is one name that stands out above the rest given his record. He was top 10 in the world, ranked eighth in October 2020), has four ATP titles in fourteen finals played.
In Grand Slam, his best results were the semifinals of Roland Garros 2020 and the quarterfinals of 2018 and 2021. As well as the quarterfinals of the US Open 2019. Always giving in to his friend Rafael Nadal. In the New York quarters 17 was Pablo Carreno who stopped him.
The Asturian also eliminated him in the ‘semi’ of Godó 2022. He is the ‘Peque’, the Argentine Diego Schwartzman, 31 years old and currently No. 123 in the world ranking. He has taken a dip in his game, losing all five of his ATP Tour main draw matches this season. Also counting previous phases, three victories and 9 defeats.
He will try to react in the RCT Barcelona-1899, with a first duel with the club’s tennis player Pol Martín Tiffon. The best will play on Sunday with the Kazakh Denis Yevseyev or the German Benjamin Hassan.
Godó’s order of play, this Saturday
RAFA NADAL COURT
(10:00 hours)
Oriol Roca (Esp)-Pierre Hugues Herbert (Fra)
Marco Trungelli (Arg)-Pablo Llamas (Esp)
(not before 1:00 p.m.)
Bernabé Zapata (Esp)-Gianluca Mager (Ita)
Diego Schwartzman (Arg)-Pol Martín (Esp)
ANDRÉS GIMENO TRACK
(10:00 hours)
Juncheng Shang (Chn)-Abdullah Shelbayh (Jor)
Duje Adjukovic (Cro)-Max Alcalá (Esp)
Nicolás Álvarez Varona (Esp)-Hugo Grenier (Fra)
(not before 3:00 p.m.)
David Jordà (Esp)-Andrea Vavassori (Ita)
TRACK 2
(10:00 hours)
Matteo Martineau (Fra)-Hugo Dellien (Bol)
Facundo Bagnis (Angry)-Nick Hardt (Dom)
Harold Mayot (Fr)-Nicholas Sanchez Left (E)
(not before 3:00 p.m.)
Denis Yevseyev (Kaz)-Benjamin Hassan (Ale)
2024-04-12 18:46:04
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