The Argentine best placed in the ATP ranking, Francisco Cerúndolo (21st) will debut in the Australian Tennis Open against a rival who emerged from the qualifying phase and Tomás Etcheverry (30th) will do so against the 36-year-old Scottish veteran Andy Murray, after being drawn the main draw of the first Grand Slam of the year.
World number one, Serbian Novak Djokovic will debut against a qualifying opponent; The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, second in the ranking, will face the French Richard Gasquet (37 years old) and the Russian Danill Medveded, third, will have his debut against the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp.
Djokovic, winner of 24 Grand Slams and 10 Australian Opens, will be the first time in his career that he will not have his historic rivals, Nadal and the Swiss Roger Federer, in the final draw of the Australian Open.
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The Argentines are not limited to Cerúndolo and Etcheverry since Sebastián Baez (28th) will play in the first round against the American JJ Wolf, who in 2023 eliminated the Argentine Diego Schwartzman, who this time was left out in the classification.
Meanwhile, Pedro Cachín (48th) will debut against a qualifying rival; Federico Coria (49th) will face the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang, and Facundo Díaz Acosta (93rd) will face the American Taylor Fritz (12).
In addition, two other Argentine tennis players are risking their chances after advancing to the last qualifying round.
We are talking about Santiago Rodríguez Taverna and Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who today advanced to the third qualifying round of the competition, which will begin on Monday, by beating the Hungarian Zsombor Piros and the Italian Ricardo Bonadío, respectively.
Now Rodríguez Taverna will go in search of qualification against the Italian Flavio Cobolli, 21 years old and 95 on the ranking, while Carabelli will face the Dutch Jesper De Jong, 23 years old and 135.
As for the possibilities that will be presented to the candidates in Melbourne Park, in the quarterfinals Djokovic could play against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (7th), the Italian Jannik Sinner (4th) against the Russian Andrey Rublev (5th. ), the Russian Medvedev against the Danish Holger Rune (8th) and Alcaraz against the German Alexander Zverev (6).
In the women’s draw, the draw provided a difficult start for the world number one, the Polish Iga Swiatek, who will play against the American Sofia Kenin.
Likewise, in her return to a Grand Slam after becoming a mother last July, the Japanese Naomi Osaka, former world number one and winner twice in Melbourne, will face the French Caroline Garcia.
2024-01-11 22:21:31
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