María Lourdes Carlé was one step away from qualifying. Photo: Twitter
Argentine tennis players Lourdes Carlé and Renzo Olivo lost their respective matches for the third round of Wimbledon Qualy, the English Grand Slam on grass, and failed to enter the main draw.
22-year-old Carlé, from Buenos Aires and number 152 in the WTA rankings, fell to Swedish Mirjam Bjorklund (123) 7-6 (2), 6-7 (5) and 6-1 in almost three hours of play and was at the gates of the ranking.
The native of Daireaux, in the south-central province of Buenos Aires, had a great performance in her first qualifying match for a Grand Slam tournament, where she beat Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl (149) and Taiwanese En-Shuo. Liang (195).
The Argentinian Nadia Podoroska and Paula Ormaechea also participated in the ranking and were eliminated in the second and first round respectively.
For his part, Rosario Renzo Olivo (191 in the ATP rankings) lost this Thursday against Czech Lukas Rosol (286) 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4) and 6-4 and was eliminated from the qualifying round of the Wimbledon tournament, the third Grand Slam of the year starting next Monday.
Olivo, in a challenger in Buenos Aires. Photo. Maxi Falla
Olivo played a good game and in the first two sets he managed to reach the tie break, even if the power of Rosol’s serve was decisive. The last set was quickly defined by the Czechoslovakian 6-4.
The 30-year-old from Rosario had passed the group after beating Austrian Jurji Rodionov (106) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
Olivo has remained in Wimbledon to this day following the elimination of Argentines Santiago Rodríguez Taverna, Pedro Cachín, Nicolás Kicker, Facundo Mena and Thiago Agustín Tirante, who were defeated in their respective games on Wednesday.
Source: Clarin
