Roland Garros will begin this Sunday with a legion of 11 Argentine tennis players, led by Diego Schwartzman

Diego Schwartzman will be the main reference of a delegation of 11 Argentine tennis players who will play at Roland Garros tomorrow from tomorrow, the second Grand Slam of the year whose great attractions are Serbian Novak Djokovic, multiple Spanish champion Rafael Nadal, the his compatriot Carlos Alcaraz, of brilliant disruption, and to the women the devastating Polish Iga Swiatek.

In this context, the World Cup in brick dust to be played from this Sunday in the charming neighborhood of Paris adjacent to the Forest of Boulogne, in the south-east of the French capital, will distribute prizes for a total of 21,256,800 euros and will end on June 5, with Nadal’s favoritism, who has lifted the trophy 13 times, Djokovic’s threat, to defend the title he won in 2021, and the appearance of Alcaraz, this year’s champion in Rio de Janeiro , Miami, Barcelona and Madrid.

For the Argentine, seven went directly into their ranking, Schwartzman, Sebastián Báez, Federico Coria, Federico Delbonis, Francisco Cerúndolo, Tomás Etcheverry and Facundo Bagnistwo more passed the classification, Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Camilo Ugo Carabelliand some more like “lucky loser”: Juan Ignacio Londero and Pedro Cachin.

Among women there is no presence of Argentines, because Rosario Nadia Podoroska was injured and inactivewhile Paula Ormaechea was defeated in the first qualifying round, and in the doubles were Horacio Zeballos, Máximo González and Andrés Molteni, all three had foreign teammates.

The Argentine delegation, with 11 tennis players in the singles draw, a brand not registered since the 2009 edition throughout the swing of “La Legión”, it will be led by “Peque” Schwartzman (16), who will try to emulate his last two performances in Paris: semifinals in 2020 and quarterfinals in 2021, both times he lost to “Rafa” Nadal.

The action of the Argentines

Schwartzmann will debut against Russian Andrey Kuznetsov (227), exit the classification, This Sunday from 7.15 amand if he passes, it is the German Daniel Altmaier (54) or the Spanish Jaume Munar (91).

From 9.15 am, the porteño Camilo Ugo Carabelli (154), coming out of the “qualy”, will face Russian Aslan Karatsev (39) and if he can pass it will be Canadian Félix Auger Aliassime (9) or Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (122), who go through classification.

Shortly after Schwartzman and Carabelli, at exactly 10:30 a.m., it was the turn of Juan Ignacio Londero (141), who benefited from three casualties in the tournament and thus entered as a “lucky loser”, although none he. as much good luck in the draw since he got the tennis player of the moment: Carlos Alcaraz (6).

In case there is a “batter” the Cordoba man will play alongside Spaniard Albert Ramos (42) or Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (85).

The rest of Argentina, on Monday

Sebastián Báez (38), this year’s Portuguese ATP champion in Estoril, will face Serbian Dusan Lajovic (66) and if he can overcome it, he will face Austrian Sebastián Ofner (218) or one of the favorites: the German Alexander Zverev (3).

Federico Coria (59) from Rosario will also play on Monday in the initial round against Slovakian Alex Molcan (47) and Serbian Djokovic (1), favorite against Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (94), awaits wins the second match.

“Fran” Cerúndolo (44) will face Daniel Evans (32) of Britain and if it wins it will be Swedish Michael Ymer (96) or Australian James Duckworth (70).

Azuleño Delbonis (62) will make his debut against Frenchman Adrián Mannarino (73) and if he passes he will face Korean Soonwoo Kwon (71) or Russian top ten Andrey Rublev (7).

the platinum Thomas Etcheverry (90), for his part, will play against Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (31), coached by David Nalbandian from Cordoba, and if he wins, he will face Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (65) or Kazakh Alexander Bublik (41).

Facundo Bagnis (98) from Santa Fe will have an almost impossible debut against Russian Daniil Medvedev (2) and Serbian Laslo Djere (51) or Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis (101) await the winner.

the pilarense Rodriguez Taverna (203), a very good year in his take on the Tiger Challenger and coming from “qualy”, will debut in a Grand Slam against American Taylor Fritz (14), and if he wins he will face American Michael Mmoh (179) or the Spanish Bernabé Zapata (133), both emerge from the classification.

Pedro Cachin (152), this year’s champion at Madrid and Prague Challengers, also entered as the “lucky loser” and will debut against Slovakian Norbert Gombos (115), who came out of the classification, and if he passes it will be the Frenchman that of Hugo Gastón (68) or the Australian Alex De Miñaur (21).

The painting of women

On the women’s side, Polish Iga Swiatek, number one in the world, is the great favorite to retain the title she won in the 2020 edition.

The Warsaw -born tennis player 20 years ago, who will make her debut against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko (121), has won the Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome tournaments this year, and is undefeated in 28 matches between titles and two Billie Jean King Cup matches.

Her main opponents are Czech Barbora Krejcikova (2), who is defending the title and will make her debut against French Diane Parry (96), and Romanian Simona Halep (19), Roland Garros champion in 2018 and has a first round against Croatian Ana Konjuh (66).

For the male team, “Nole”, “Rafa” and Alcaraz have a particularity in the upper part.

That suggests that if logic is given to the results in the first rounds, Djokovic will face Nadal in the quarterfinals and the winner will play in a semifinals finally against Alcaraz, the new 19-year-old world tennis phenomenon.

Source: Telam