Argentine Tennis Star Tomás Martín Etcheverry Set to Compete for First Title in Lyon ATP Final

Argentine tennis could have a joy this weekend, hours before the start of the second Grand Slam of the season. Tomás Martín Etcheverry reached the final of the ATP 250 in Lyon, he will play his third decisive match in the select professional world and will seek to win his first crown against the local Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, a surprising protagonist of the tournament who reached the main draw thanks to a wild card .

The 24-year-old player, ranked 29th in the ATP rankings, will try to win his first title after being defeated in 2023 in the decisive matches in Santiago de Chile and Houston. To get there he eliminated the Argentine nationalized Italian Luciano Darderi in the semifinals with a solid 6-2 and 6-4.

Tomi had previously left behind the Spanish Nikolas Sánchez Izquierdo (1-6, 6-2 and 6-2), the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (7-5, 3-0 and retirement) and the German Dominik Koepfer (6- 4 and 6-1).

On the other side of the net you will have the big surprise of the week: Perricard is 20 years old and is 117th in the world, his best ranking. He received an invitation to play in his territory and did not disappoint, as he beat the Italian Lorenzo Sonego, was favored by the non-performance of the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, beat his compatriot Hugo Gaston in the quarterfinals and finally beat Alexander Bublik

Etcheverry will seek to lift the trophy in this same tournament that last year saw his compatriot Francisco Cerúndolo fall in the final against the local Arthur Fils. It must be taken into account that this will be the sixth ATP final of the year for Argentina: Facundo Bagnis lost the duel for the title at the ATP in Córdoba, Facundo Díaz Acosta won the Argentina Open, Sebastián Báez won the ATP 500 in Rio after defeated his compatriot Mariano Navone in the decisive match and then repeated a coronation in Santiago, Chile. The last one was from Navone himself, who was defeated in Bucharest by Márton Fucsovics.

Regardless of the enormous importance that this presentation in Lyon will have, eyes are already beginning to be focused on the main draw of Roland Garros that will begin in the next few hours and that will add the 11th Argentine representative at the singles level after the triumph of Román Burruchaga in the last duel of the qualy. The son of the world champion with Argentina in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico beat the Slovakian Jozef Kovalík 4-6, 7-6 and 6-4 to reach his first Roland Garros main draw, where he will face the German Jan-Lennard Struff.

The table for the other 10 flag bearers of the country in the legendary Grand Slam on clay is already defined: Francisco Cerúndolo will clash with the German Yannick Hanfmann (85th), Pedro Cachin against the North American Tommy Paul (14th), Federico Coria against the American Taylor Fritz (12th), Etcheverry will face the Frenchman Arthur Cazaux (77th), Mariano Navone against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (1047th, used the protected ranking), Thiago Tirante with the Spanish Pedro Martínez (49th °) and Sebastián Báez with the Brazilian Gustavo Heide.

On the female side, the promising Julia Riera will go against the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu (127th), Nadia Podoroska (59th) will play a high-risk duel against the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (21st) and María Lourdes Carlé (83rd ) will run into the Belgian Elise Mertens (27th).

2024-05-24 17:16:48
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