Nadia Podoroska (No. 85 within the WTA rankings) put up a struggle however Diane Parry (52nd) got here out stronger towards the house crew within the first spherical of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video gamesAfter two hours and 17 minutes of play, the European participant secured her place within the second spherical by 7-6 (6) and 7-5. The Argentine nonetheless has an opportunity in doubles and combined.
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In her second Olympic look after Tokyo 2020, Podoroska confirmed good indicators The French energy at residence was the norm at Roland Garros. In her first ever competitors, 21-year-old Parry booked her ticket to the spherical of 16 in straight units underneath the brilliant European solar.
It’s price noting that earlier, Lourdes Carlé, Tomás Etcheverry and Mariano Navone had given Argentina its first tennis victories of their debuts as Olympic athletes. The participant from Rodovia beat the German Tatjana Maria “on bicycle”, the participant from La Plata beat the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild and the participant from 9 de Julio sealed a stable efficiency over the Portuguese Nuno Borges.
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Nonetheless, the semi-finalist on the French Grand Slam in 2020 may have two different alternatives, lending herself to girls’s doubles with Lourdes Carlé and in combined with specialist Máximo González, who gave on this Saturday with Andrés Molteni versus the proficient Spanish duo Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.
