Camilo Ugo Carabelli (154th) added on Friday his third win at the Roland Garros qualy by beating Swiss Alexander Ristchard 7-6 (6) and 6-2 and fulfilling the dream of making his debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament . The man from Buenos Aires, who will turn 23 on June 17, will be one of eleven Argentines, the most since 2009, to play in the sacred brick dust of Paris from Sunday.

When he was young, Ugo Carabelli shared his time between soccer and tennis, which he practiced at the Harrods Gath & Chaves club, in Belgrano. At the age of ten, he had to choose one of the two, but he no longer had to think about that. Santiago Rodriguez Tavern (203), 22, who achieved his goal on Thursday.

Right-footed and with a two-handed backhand, Ugo Carabelli confessed to being an admirer of David Nalbandian: “I always really liked the way he was playing. Also, they always told me that I look a bit like him physically and I think I he liked that too. “

With an unbalanced backhand and a good drive (the serve was his weakest shot), he was most comfortable playing offensive tennis. He won two titles at the Challenger circuit: in August 2021 he became champion in Warsaw and three weeks ago he repeated at the Tigers. In addition, he reached two finals last year (Lima and Santa Cruz de la Sierra). Those great returns allowed him to grow in his ranks.

“I want to live tennis, play four Grand Slams and play the Davis Cup, to enjoy that adrenaline and those sensations that competition has to give you,” he said. Clarion a year ago in a note in which he was presented as one of the faces of the new generation of Argentine tennis. Sleep was slow in coming, but it came. And he will make his debut against Russian Aslan Karatsev.

losses and fortune

Instead, Marco Trungelliti and Pedro Cachín lost their respective matches in the final round of qualifying.

Trungelliti, a native of Santiago del Estero, fell to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov (227) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in two hours and 12 minutes. And Cachín, born in Bell Ville and ranked 203rd in the ATP world rankings, lost to another Russian, Pavel Kotov (143), 6-3, 6-2 after an hour and 32 minutes of play.

However, Cordovan smiled minutes later as he entered the main draw as a lucky loser, like Juan Ignacio Londero. Cachín immediately knew who he was facing. And he will have an unforgettable experience as he plays against Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz. Londero will face Slovakian Norbert Gombos.

By ranking and coming out in the third round, they were drawn for three vacant spots. And luck winked at them so that in total there were 11 Argentines in Paris. It may have been 12, because the third lucky loser to go through the window was Franco Agamenone, who was born 29 years ago in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, but since 2020 he has been representing Italy.

The eleven Argentines going to Paris, in addition to Ugo Carabelli, Rodríguez Taverna, Cachín and Londero, will be completed by Diego Schwartzman (16), Sebastián Báez (38), Francisco Cerúndolo (44), Federico Delbonis (62), Federico Coria (59), Tomás Etcheverry (90) and Facundo Bagnis (98).

Schwartzman will meet on Sunday, the first day of competition against Russian Kuznetsov, Trungelliti’s executioner, while Báez will make his presentation against Serbian Dusan Lajovic and, if he wins, he could face the German who Alexander Zverev in the second round.

Cerúndolo will face Daniel Evans of Britain, while Delbonis will face Frenchman Adrián Mannarino. Coria will face Slovakian Alex Molcan (who beat him on Thursday in Lyon) and then he will have none other than the number one in the world, Novak Djokovic, as his rival. Etcheverry, for his part, will face Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic. The one who will have a very difficult stumble is Bagnis, who will have to play against Russian Daniil Medvedev. Finally, Rodríguez Taverna will face American Taylor Fritz.