Five Argentines begin the Rio de Janeiro ATP classification

Five Argentines begin the Rio de Janeiro ATP classification

February 17, 2024 – 2:57 p.m.

Starting at 4 p.m. on the different clay courts of the Brazilian Jockey Club, the Buenos Aires residents Mariano Navone and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, and more, will see action.

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Five Argentine tennis players They will begin this Saturday to compete in the classification of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiroa contest whose main draw will start this Monday and which will be endowed with prizes for US$2,271,715.

Starting at 4 p.m. on the different clay courts of the Brazilian Jockey Club, the people of Buenos Aires will see action Mariano Navone (117 in the ATP world ranking) and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (163), the man from La Plata Thiago Tirante (105), the man from Mar del Plata Francisco Comesaña (119) and the porteño Camilo Ugo Carabelli (134).

Navone, a native of 9 de Julio, will have his first meeting in qualifying against the Brazilian Mateus Alves (389); while Cerúndolo, from San Isidro, will face the rising Luciano Darderi (76), the young man born in Villa Gesell and naturalized Italian, who has just won the Cordoba Open last weekend.

Tirante, for his part, will run into the Italian Andrea Pellegrino (159); At the same time, Comesaña will take on a difficult debut with the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (135). Finally, Ugo Carabelli will have Frenchman Corentin Moutet (145) as his inaugural opponent.

The ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro began to be held in the 2014 edition with the title going to Rafael Nadal, while four years later the Argentine Diego Schwartzman was crowned champion, defeating the Spanish Fernando Verdasco in the final.

Source: Ambito

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