02/10/2020 - 12:46
- Clarín.com
- sports
Without the two great top 10 figures he expected, but with eight Argentines in the box and Diego Schwartzman and Guido Pella as top favorites, the ATP 250 of Buenos Aires will be launched on Monday, which will celebrate its 20th edition as one of the most important stops of the South American brick dust tour.
On the first day of competition at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club there will be only one blue and white racket on the court. It will be Federico Delbonis (74 ° of the ranking), who in the last turn (near 21.30) will face the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (77 °). The two players participated on Sunday of the traditional Kid's Day .
FILA KIDS 'DAY at @ArgentinaOpen
The KIDS 'DAY organized by the #AAT had more than 200 boys lived the experience # GEN10S🧡 and rallied with @fededelbonis and @hugodellien 🎾🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/3OG1GrJADu
The winner of that match will face Schwartzman in the round of 16, top candidate for the title after the casualties of Austrian Dominic Thiem (4th in the world; tired, after reaching the final at the Australian Open) and Italian Matteo Berrettini (8th; due to injury).
The Peque will arrive wanting to take revenge, after losing the final of the ATP of Cordoba to the Chilean Cristina Garín and not being able to add his fourth title, the first playing at home.
At the close of the classification there was good news because Facundo Bagnis beat Portugal's Joao Sousa 6-2, 2-6 and 6-2 and got into the main draw.
The Santa Fe (135 °) will debut before the Slovak Andrej Martin. And if he wins he will cross in the second wheel with Pella, second favorite. The bahiense comes from a weak performance in Córdoba, where he said goodbye in the debut with an unexpected fall against the Frenchman Corentin Moutet.
Bagnis surpassed the classification and became the eighth Argentine in the main draw of the tournament. Photo Press Challenger of Buenos Aires
In addition, Juan Ignacio Londero, who last week reached the quarterfinals on the dust of Cordoba brick, will put first before the Slovak Filip Horansky, coming from the classification.
The Argentine presence in Buenos Aires will be completed by the three guests of the organization: Leonardo Mayer, who will debut before the Spaniard Albert Ramos Viñolas, Facundo Díaz Acosta, before Garín, and Francisco Cerúndolo, against the Serbian Laslo Djere.
On Monday's day, in addition to the Delbonis-Dellien duel, three other matches of the first round of the singles table will be played. At 14.30, the Spanish Jaume Munar will collide with the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro. Next, the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8th preclassified) will be measured with the Spanish Pablo Andújar. And not before 19, the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas will face the Italian Lorenzo Sonego.