Diego Schwartzman will face the chinese Yen Hsun Lu Y Nadia Podoroska to the switzerland Belinda Bencic in their respective debuts in the opening round of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year that will begin on Sunday in Paris, as determined today by the main draw draw in which the two best Argentine tennis players must defend the semifinals they reached in the last edition.
In this context, “Peque” Schwartzman, tenth in the ATP world ranking, will lead the Argentine delegation that also has Federico Delbonis, Guido Pella, Federico Coria, Juan Ignacio Londero, Facundo Bagnis and among the ladies Podoroska, the seven entered directly, while another three will seek this Friday to overcome the qualifying phase: Marco Trungelliti and the brothers Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo.
The contest, which will distribute prizes for 17,171,000 euros and will be played in the complex located in the charming Parisian area of Bois de Boulogne, from May 30 to June 13, will feature the great attractions that will be the Spanish Rafael Nadal , the most winner in history with 13 trophies, the Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer.
The three legends of world tennis were included in the same part of the table, an unprecedented event in a Grand Slam. That configuration was made possible by the fact that Nadal, world number 3, is not located in the lower sector, and was located in the upper one like Djokovic, world number one and first seed, and Federer, eighth seeded.
As for the Argentines, the “Peque” Schwartzman will start his campaign between the Taiwanese Lu (679) and if he passes it will be the French Adrian Mannarino (36) or the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene (54), while Rosario Podoroska ( 40) will start her way against the Swiss Bencic (11) and if she wins she will go in the second round against the Russian Daria Kasatkina (36) or the Japanese Misaki Doi (79).
Schwartzman must defend the points he won in the 2020 edition that ran to the last week of September and the first of October, in a modification of his traditional date as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with a great performance until he ran into Nadal, while Podoroska is going through the same situation.
The “Peque” surprised when last year she went through the “qualy” and was installed among the four best, until she lost in the semifinals against the Polish Iga Swiatek (9), then champion of the women’s team of the contest.
Meanwhile, Rosario “Fefo” Coria (96) will play in the initial round against Spanish Feliciano López (61) and if he wins, he would then go against the Italian “top ten” Matteo Berrettini (9) or a tennis player emerged from the classification, While Armstrong’s “Facu” Bagnis (101) from Santa Fe will face the French Benjamin Bonzi (115) and if he passes it he will play later with the German Jan Lennard Struff (42) or the Russian Andrey Rublev (7).
The Azulean Delbonis (52), semifinalist this week at the ATP 250 in Belgrade, will make his debut against Moldovan Radu Albot (88) and if he surpasses him, it will be the Spanish Pablo Andújar (68) or the Austrian Dominic Thiem (4) in the second round , current champion of the US Open.
The Bahia native Pella (59) will play against an opponent emerged from the classification and if he passes it it will be the turn of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (17) or the American Marcos Girón (82), while the Cordoba of Jesús María Londero (100) will face the Chilean Cristian Garín (23) and Finn Emil Ruusuvuori (74) or a tennis player emerged from the classification awaits him.
In the “qualy” this Friday, Trungelliti from Santiago (236) will define his entry to the main draw against the American MacKenzie McDonald (118), Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (147) against the Swiss Henri Laaksonen (150) and Francisco Cerúndolo (116) against the Italian Alessandro Giannessi (159).
Among the favorites, “Rafa” Nadal (3) will debut against the Australian Alexei Popyrin (62), Djokovic (1) against the American Tennys Sandgren (66) and Federer (8) against a tennis player emerged from the classification.
In the women’s draw, the Australian Barty (1) will play against the American Bernarda Pera (70), the Japanese Osaka (2) against the Romanian Patricia María Tig (63) and the veteran Serena Williams (8), with 23 titles of Grand Slam and the illusion of winning another at 39, will be measured in the opening round with the Romanian Irina Begu (74).
The Polish Swiatek (9), surprising champion in the 2020 edition, will play in the opening round against the Slovenian Kaja Juvan (101) and the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza (13), champion of Roland Garros in the 2016 edition, will face the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (81).
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