In this context, the charming Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, will receive “Delpo” after 16 years, after his previous and only participation in 2006 when he was taking his first steps on the circuit, with the seasoning of that the man from Tandil announced that the Argentina Open and then the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro will be the last in this stage of his career, marked by injuries.
Schwartzman, the defending champion, will be the highest-ranked Argentine among the seven who have so far secured their presence in the main draw, with the mission of defending the trophy he won in 2021 and ending 12 foreign coronations, including the Spanish Rafael Nadal (2015), the Austrian Dominic Thiem (2016 and 2018) and the Norwegian Ruud (2020).
The contest, installed since 2001 on the calendar of the South American tour on brick dust, will distribute prizes for $ 686,800 and will be played again to a full stadium after last year’s restrictions to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic that caused there to be no sale of tickets to the public, among other measures.
The tournament will begin this Monday but the “main course”, at least emotionally, will be on Tuesday with the presentation of Juan Martín Del Potro from Tandil on his return to tennis after two years and eight months, against Federico Delbonis from Azul, as determined by the draw for the main draw.
Del Potro, former number three on the planet currently relegated to position 757 due to prolonged inactivity caused by a serious injury to the right patella that required four surgeries, will reappear after 965 days against Delbonis (41), whom he surpassed the only time they were face to face, in the 2017 Indian Wells edition by 7-6 (7-5) and 6-3 in a second round match.
The game, highly emotional because it was the “Delpo” farewell tour, caused the tickets available for Tuesday to run out long before the ATP organization confirmed the day.
His rival, Delbonis, who has 12 consecutive appearances at the Argentina Open, is not one more, since both won the three points in the historic victory over Croatia on November 27, 2016, when Argentina starred in the feat in Zagreb and surpassed the Balkans 3-2 to lift the Davis Cup for the only time in its history.
The winner of the cross between “Delpo” and “Delbo” will play in the round of 16 against the winner of the tie between Jesús María Juan Ignacio Londero (139) from Cordoba and Pablo Andújar (73) from Spain.
In addition to the aforementioned Del Potro, Schwartzman and Delbonis, the contest will have six other Argentines in the main draw, since today Tomás Martín Etcheverry from La Plata (128) and Francisco Cerúndolo from Buenos Aires (111) joined after surpassing the previous classification of the contest. ), the latter a finalist in 2021.
Among those who entered directly, “Little” Schwartzman (14) stands out, who will debut directly in the round of 16 as second seed, behind the top favorite, the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8).
The “Peque”, current champion of the Argentina Open, will be measured in the round of 16 with the winner of the cross between Jaume Munar (88) and Etcheverry from La Plata, who entered the qualy.
In addition to Ruud, champion in 2020, and Schwartzman, the other two exempted from the initial round will be two “tans”: Lorenzo Sonego (23) and Fabio Fognini (31).
The other Argentines who will play the main draw are Federico Coria, Sebastián Báez and Facundo Bagnis.
Rosario Coria (64) will debut against Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas (90) and if he beats him, he will then go to the round of 16 against Frenchman Benoit Paire (54) or Serbian Dusan Lajovic (38).
Santa Fe Bagnis (74) will debut against another Argentine: Francisco Cerúndolo, who reached the main draw from the previous classification of the contest, and if he passes it, he will have a Serb in the round of 16: Laslo Djere (49) or Miomir Kecmanovic (63) .
Finally, Báez (77) from Buenos Aires, one of the Argentine tennis players with the greatest projection on the circuit, will make his debut in Buenos Aires against Holger Rune (97) from Denmark, who received a special invitation for the second consecutive year to play the tournament .
In the case of winning, Báez will go to the round of 16 against the third favorite, the Italian Sonego (23).
The Argentina Open is the second leg of the South American tour on a clay surface, after the ATP in Córdoba and before the one in Rio and lastly the one in Santiago, Chile.
Source: Ambito
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