The Roland-Garros Junior begins at San Pablo with four Argentines: two tickets to go to Paris are up for grabs

The 2024 edition of Roland Garros Junior It starts this Wednesday, at the Sociedade Harmonia de Tenis, in Sao Paulo, with a difference compared to the main tournaments: instead of an elimination round in which the winner advances. and the loser says goodbye to the competition, the first phase will be in groups made up of four players in each of the four groups. There are four Argentine tennis players.

In this first phase, which will be played from 3 to 5 April, the members of each group will face each other and the best placed in each group will advance to the semi-final of the competition, which will be played on Saturday. on the 6th.

“Our ambition is to position Roland-Garros Junior as a point of reference and, at the same time, support the next generation of Latin American players. For this reason this year we have decided to adopt this format to ensure that each Junior plays at least three matches.”He explained Aymeric Labaste, Director of International Development of the French Tennis Federation (FFT).

The definition of groups

The finalists of the 2023 edition of the Roland-Garros Junior Series, Argentina Sol Larraia Guidiwho became champion, and PietraRivoli, second place, will participate again in this edition of the tournament. The Argentinian, who defends the title, is in group A while the Brazilian is in group B and both will only be able to meet in the final, given that the winner of group A will face the winner of group C, while the winner of group B will face those in group D.

In the men’s group there will inevitably be a new champion given that João Fonseca, champion in 2022, no longer belongs to the category and Alejandro Arcila, from Colombia, will not participate in this edition either due to exceeding the age limit.

The mission of keeping the title in the hands of Colombia falls to Lucas Velasco, who is in Group D.

But, unlike the women’s group, the winner of group D among the boys faces the winner of group A, which includes the Brazilian Luís Miguel and to the Argentine Faustino Boffelliwho had access thanks to the wild card presented Juan Martin del Potroambassador of the tournament, granted it.

The winner of Group B will face the winner of Group C on Saturday 6th afternoon.

THE Renault’s Roland-Garros Junior Series It will be broadcast on ESPN and Star+. On the station the matches will be broadcast every day from 4pm to 7pm, while on Star+ the matches will be broadcast from 11.30am on Wednesdays and Thursdays and at 11am on Fridays.

On Saturday, the day of the semi-finals, Star+ will start broadcasting at 12.30pm while ESPN will broadcast at 4pm. On Sunday, in the final, ESPN and Star+ will broadcast simultaneously from 2.30pm.