2024-08-22 22:47:48
The draw for the first round of the US Open was held on Thursday and the opponents of the 12 Argentines who will participate in both the men’s and women’s categories are already known.
The final round of qualifying was held on Thursday, and Diego “Peque” Schwartzman, who is playing his last tournaments as a professional, achieved a valuable victory against Lithuanian Vilius Gaubas and was able to qualify for the main draw.
There was also good news in the women’s standings, as Solana Sierra beat local Usue Maitana Arconada in three sets and will compete for the first time in the main draw of the last Grand Slam of each season.
Thus, the Argentines who appear in the men’s draw are Sebastián Báez (21st), Francisco Cerúndolo (29th), Tomás Etcheverry, Mariano Navone, Facundo Díaz Acosta, Federico Coria, Francisco Comesaña, Camilo Ugo Carabelli and Diego Schwartzman, the only one from the classification.
In the first round, which will start on Monday, the rivals of the only Argentines seeded, Sebastián Báez and Francisco Cerúndolo, will be the Italian-Argentine Luciano Darderi and the Austrian Sebastian Ofner respectively.
The other two national representatives in the top 50, Etcheverry and Navone, will have dangerous debuts against the Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and the German Daniel Altmaier.
Finally, Coria will face the Portuguese Nuno Borges, Ugo Carabelli with the American Taylor Fritz (12th), Comesaña with the Swiss Dominic Stricker, and Díaz Acosta with the French Hugo Gastón.
As for the women’s event, the Argentines who did not have to face the qualification and entered directly through the ranking were Nadia Podoroska and María Lourdes Carlé, who will face the Russian Diana Shnaider (18th) and the Ukrainian Elina Svitólina respectively.
It remains to be seen who will be the rivals of Schwartzman and Sierra, the Argentines who entered the main draw through qualification.
The rivals of the top eight seeds
Jannik Sinner (1°) – Mackenzie McDonald.
Novak Djokovic (2nd) – against a qualifier.
Carlos Alcaraz (3rd) – against a qualifier.
Alexander Zverev(4°) – Emil Ruusuvuori.
Daniil Medvedev (5°) – Dusan Lajovic.
Andrey Rublev (6°) – Thiago Seyboth Wild.
Hubert Hurkacz (7th) – against a qualifier.
Casper Ruud (8th) – vs. a qualifier.