The dream and tears of Genaro Olivieri, the Argentine tennis player who qualified for Roland Garros without having played a single ATP match

The face of the Argentine Genaro Olivieri touch the clay Roland Garroshis body stretched out on the track where he has just won the right to play in the final draw of the French Grand Slam.

The 24-year-old tennis player will thus enter the best in a big for the first time, after winning the final duel of the previous phase against the Bulgarian this Friday Adrian Andreev Of 6-1, 5-7 and 6-4.

Bragado’s can’t believe it, but will raise the list of Argentines to nine who will play the men’s final draw, to which we must add Nadia Podoroska in the feminine.

In the midst of the euphoria of victory, Olivieri had a memory for his father, a famous pelotari who died during the pandemic.

With him are two Argentines who managed to enter the final draw through the preliminary phase, something Thiago Tirante had achieved this Thursday, who will thus also make his debut in a Grand Slam.

At the door was Facundo Díaz Acosta, who lost the third match against Austrian Sebastian Ofner 7-5, 6-3.

While waiting for one of the Argentines eliminated in the previous phase to be rescued to cover the losses, Diego Schwartzman, Sebastian Baez, Francisco Cerundolo, Federico Coria, Pedro Cachín, Tomás Martin Etcheverry and Guido Pella will participate in the final table.