Spanish Tennis Stars Advance to Roland Garros Main Draw Qualifiers

Three of the four Spaniards who managed to reach the second round of the Roland Garros qualifying phase continue ahead and They will look for a place in the main draw of the second Grand Slam of the season that starts next Sunday. Both Alexander Moro like Daniel Corner in the male box, like Irene Burillo In the women’s team, they were able to play their second match on the clay in Paris.

The first of the men’s team to advance to the round was Alexander Morowho beat the Frenchman in the morning January in two sets 6-3 and 6-4 in one hour and 35 minutes. Mid-afternoon Barnabas Zapata set off alarms after retire due to injury of his match against the Italian Masters after the Valencian had lost the first set. Daniel Corner gave the other Spanish joy, in the last match of the day, the 21-year-old managed to come back against the Tunisian Aziz Dougaz 7-6, 2-6 and 2-6.

In the third and final round to access the main draw of the tournament to Moro the Italian awaits you Bellucciwhile Rincón will face the Brazilian Thiago Monteirowho has just reached the second round at the Rome Masters after passing the qualifying phase.

In the women’s box, Irene Burillo Escorihuela victory in Serbia Veronika Erjavec in two sets 6-4 and 6-3 in one hour and 26 minutes. In her last test to access the main draw of the second Grand Slam of the season, the Swiss awaits her Teichmann199 in the ranking that, like the one from Zaragoza, has not given up any set in the two previous matches of the tournament.

Thiem and Schwartzmann, some emotional farewells

The day left us with emotional farewells to Dominic Thiem y Diego Schwartzmann, who announced their retirement this year. For his part, the Austrian received one more day the affection of the French public in what was his last match in one of his favorite tournaments, after being finalist in 2018 and 2019. Despite receiving support from the entire court, Thiem could not overcome the Finnish Otto Virtanen, who reached the final of the qualifying phase by 2-6 and 5-7. Rolan Garros wanted to say a final ‘goodbye’ after ten contested editions with a tribute to the former world number three.

However, this was not his only tearful farewell of the day. The Argentinian Diego Schwartzman He also said goodbye to the Parisian event, after the Frenchman Fair They came back from a match that ended in a tie-break 4-6, 6-4 and 7(10)-6(7). ‘El Peque’, who along with Thiem have been two of the focuses in this phase prior to the main draw, say goodbye to a special tournament after both have become semi-finalists and, in the case of the Austrian, finalist up to two times .

2024-05-22 21:58:26
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