Wimbledon qualy had an invasion of Argentines: as did the ten players who made their debut

A positive balance for Argentine tennis left the first day of qualifying at Wimbledon, which began on Monday Land of the Bank of England of Roehampton. Six of the ten national rackets that took to the field entered the second round of the preliminary round, which will deliver 16 tickets for each of the main singles draws.

Pedro Cachin118th in the world, he defeated the French 7-6 (7-5) and 6-4 Antoine Escoffier, 209th, and added the first victory of his career in the English Grand Slam. The 27-year-old from Córdoba had competed in the standings twice, in 2015 and 2019, but lost in both cases on his debut. He will now clash with the Bulgarian Dimitar Kuzmanov175th in the standings.

Facundo Mena (162) started his first participation in the race with his right foot, beating the American 7-5 and 6-3 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (556 °). At the age of 29, he tries for the first time to enter the main draw of a major. His next rival will be the French Enzo Couacaud (207 °).

For Santiago Rodriguez Tavern (179th) the 6-3 and 7-6 (7-3) victory against the Serbian milan zeckic (271st) was special. Because it was the first official match on grass for the 22-year-old from Buenos Aires, who set foot for the first time on a pitch of that surface a week ago: he was training in a town in Buenos Aires to get to the pace of the match. . In the second round he will face the Croatian Duje Ajdukovic (236 °).

Renzo Olivo (191 °) beat the Taiwanese 6-4 and 6-4 Tung Lin Wu (194th) and took the first step to enter the Wimbledon main draw for the second time. The 30-year-old from Rosario already played it in 2017, when he entered directly and fell on his debut against the Bosnian Damir Dzumur. In the second round he will clash with the Austrian Juryj Rodionov (152 °).

Another representative of the new blue and white generation that debuted with the celebrations was Thiago Tirante (197 °). The 21-year-old from La Plata, who this year played his first two qualifiers in Australia and Roland Garros (both lost on his debut), beat the Portuguese 6-4, 6-2 Frederico Ferreira Silva (264th) and will clash in his next match with the Australian Jason Kubler (98 °).

The last Argentine joy of the day was the victory of Nicolás Kicker (223rd), who won 6-2 and 6-1 against the Italian Flavio Cobolli (145 °) and now it will go to the Swiss Alessandro Rischard (192 °). The 29-year-old originally from Merlo wants to enter for the second time in the main draw of the British Grand Slam, which he had already played in 2018 (he crashed on his debut).

Camilo Ugo Carabelli (127th) couldn’t even finish his match against the French Alexandre Müller (164 °). He retired injured when he was 6-2 and 2-5 in the second set. also said goodbye Genaro Oliveri (217th), who lost 6-3 and 6-2 with the Brazilian Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida (227th), but he still had the pleasure of playing the qualy of a “great” for the first time at 23 years old.

The other Argentine defeats were those of Andrea Collarini (204 °), fallen 6-4 and 6-2 against the American Jack Sock (102 °), and Facundo Diaz Acosta (240 °), passed 2-6, 6-4 and 6-4 by the Spaniards Javier Barranco Cosano (251 °).

This Tuesday it will be the turn of the three Argentines to debut for a place in the women’s singles draw. Nadia Podoroska (177th) will clash with the American asia mohammed (167 °); Paula Ormaechea (154 °), with the Croatian jana fett (254 °); Y Lourdes Charles (210 °), with the Ukrainian Caterina Baindl (149 °).

Wimbledon breaks tradition

As the qualifiers got underway in Roehampton, the big stars of the circuit were already beginning to beat the third Grand Slam of the season. Serbian Novak Djokovic, reigning champion, and Spaniard Rafael Nadal, maximum winner of “majors”, with 22 titles, trained this Monday in the Aranghi Parka tennis complex located next to the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Although in the next few days they could have gathered on the main fields of the AELTC, which they had never been able to do before the competition.

This is how the organizers of the London Major decided to break with an old tradition and allow players to train in the club’s center and field 1, which until this edition were reserved only for the most important matches of the tournament.

Last year the property’s most important pitch was more slippery than the rest and there were two players who suffered serious injuries and had to retire from matches, the Frenchman Adriano Mannarinoin the match against Roger Federer, and the American Serena Williams.

Additionally, the former number one and 23 major winner has injured her leg so badly that her recovery has left her off the pitch for nearly a year and, in fact, Wimbledon will mark her comeback.

To prevent stories like these from repeating themselves, the AELTC decided to open the fields the week before the race so that the lawn “spends” a little and is not so slippery in the early rounds.

Until this year, tradition had it that the central court was inaugurated the weekend before the tournament with a women’s doubles match, in which the players were chosen by lot from among the members of the exclusive club.