Roland Garros: Thiago Tirante, the Argentine tennis player who persevered and will have his first time in a Grand Slam

Argentine tennis player Thiago Tirante will play his first Grand Slam at Roland Garros starting next Sunday, after beating Switzerland’s Dominic Stricker 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 today in the third and final qualifying round, while his compatriot Facundo Bagnis lost and was eliminated.

Tirant, born in La Plata 22 years ago and ranked 153 in the ATP world rankings, beat Stricker (116) after an hour and 50 minutes of play and thus managed to pass a Grand Slam ranking for the first time in his sixth attempt .

The man from La Plata had failed to pass the “qualy” in the 2022 and 2023 Australian Open editions, and not even at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and last year’s US Open.

The Argentine, champion this year in the Challenger de Morelosin Mexico, he joins his eight compatriots who entered the Grand Slam directly by ranking, which will be played in Paris from Sunday 28 May to Sunday 11 June.

Argentines who qualified for Roland Garros directly at Roland Garros

Those who entered directly are Francisco Cerúndolo (28); Sebastián Báez (44), Tomás Martín Etcheverry (46); Pedro Cachin (63); Diego Schwartzmann (93); Federico Coria (94) and Guido Pella (421), who will play with a protected classification.

Among women, the only representative of Argentina will be Rosario Nadia Podoroska (101).

For his part, Facundo Bagnis (124) from Santa Fe lost in the third and final “qualifying” round to the Spaniard Pedro Martínez (135) 2-6, 7-5 and 6-0 after two hours and 13 minutes. match, and he will not participate in the Parisian Grand Slam.

Four other Argentine tennis players will try to access the main draw from qualifying: Camilo Ugo Carabelli and Renzo Olivo, who will play later, and Facundo Díaz Acosta and Genaro Alberto Olivieri, who will play tomorrow.

Rosario’s Olivo (259) will play his entry into the main draw against Chinese Juncheng Shang (200) and Buenos Aires’ Camilo Ugo Carabelli (150) will face Moldova’s Radu Albot (111).

For his part, Facundo Díaz Acosta (137) will face the Austrian Sebastián Ofner (118) tomorrow in the third and final round and Genaro Alberto Olivieri (227) from Braga will face the Bulgarian Adrián Andreev (214).