06/28/2021 7:46 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/28/2021 10:24 AM
The Argentines Diego Schwartzman, ninth seed, Federico Delbonis, Facundo Bagnis and Nadia Podoroska will be the first to debut this Monday at Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the season that returns to the professional tennis circuit after a year of absence due to the coronavirus pandemic and that started with a rain delay and that for now only allows the action in the center court and on court number 1.
And on the main stage for now everything is surprise.
Is that British Jack Draper won the first set against Serbian Novak Djokovic, world number one who is looking for his third big title in 2021, with chances of consummating an unprecedented Golden Slam.
It was 6-4 for the 19-year-old who ranks 253rd in the world rankings.
The party on the grass of the All England Club in London this 2021 has the participation of eight Argentine players, whose second half (Guido Pella, Juan Ignacio Londero, Facundo Coria and Marco Trungelliti) will see action only on Tuesday.
Historically adverse for Argentine tennis, the greatest expectations are logically placed on "Peque" Schwartzman, despite the fact that he arrives without playing any previous tournament on grass.
People watch the order of play at the All England Club.
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The number 11 of the ATP ranking opens against the French Benoit Paire (46) in the third turn of court 17, a time approximately at noon in Argentina.
In case of winning, the next instance will be faced by the Italian Marco Cecchinato (84) or the British Liam Broady (144), invited by the organization.
His history with the French yields a victory for each: the European beat him at the Masters 1000 in Rome in 2018 and the Buenos Aires man had a rematch in Munich 2019, both games on brick dust.
In his five appearances for the British "Major", Schwartzman registers three eliminations in the first round (2015, 2016 and 2017), one in the second (2018) and another in the third (2019), so this year he will try to sustain the growing trend and reach the second week of competition for the first time.
Employees and the latest details on the All England Club courts.
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The "Peque" reached the third round of the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, in the other two major tournaments he played this season, which at the moment brought him only one title, the ATP of Buenos Aires.
Motivated by a tennis rebirth, the Azulean Delbonis will play Wimbledon for the sixth time in his career with a tough challenge from the start, such as his match against Russian Andrey Rublev, seven in the world and fifth favorite in London.
Delbonis, 30, will make his debut no earlier than 9:00 with what will be his first match against the Moscow tennis player, who this year was the ATP 500 champion in Rotterdam and a finalist at the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo.
Disinfecting the seats on one of the Wimbledon courts.
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The Argentine, eliminated in the first round in his five previous appearances, is going through a positive campaign, with a partial of 19 wins-12 losses and good results in Santiago (semifinals), Madrid (eighth), Roma (quarters), Belgrade (semis) and Roland Garros (eighth).
The 2016 Davis Cup champion started the season at 77th in the rankings and currently ranks 48th.
place, become the second best Argentine tennis player of the moment.
Facundo Bagnis (91) is the first to take the field against the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (47), which will mark his fourth appearance on the London lawn, where he could never win.
The Rosario was fired in the initial phase of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions.
In his return to the third Grand Slam of the year, he will face an opponent who already beat him in the first round of the Belgrade tournament last April.
Nadia Podoroska (39) will make her debut at the All England Club when she meets American Ann Li (68), after winning the first two matches of her career on grass last week at the German tournament in Bad Homburg.
His presentation is scheduled for around noon, on the third shift of court number 7.
The other four Argentines of the 2021 edition in London will play on Tuesday.
Pella from Bahia (59), in a season to be forgotten that includes nine falls in the first round, at the Australia Open, the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and Madrid;
the ATP 500 from Barcelona and the 250 from Geneva, Cagliari, Stuttgart, Halle and Mallorca, will take on a difficult match against the Italian Matteo Berrettini (9).
Tarps for everyone on the first day of action at Wimbledon.
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Pella was the only tennis player from his country who added shooting on grass, although with quick defeats in Stuttgart, Halle and Mallorca.
Wrapped in a loose present, he is forced to defend the points of his last presentation in 2019 when he reached the quarterfinals, otherwise he will suffer a marked decline in the ranking.
The Cordovan Londero (128), of a very bad season, will play against the Italian Gianluca Mager (78);
Federico Coria (89) from Rosario will make his debut at Wimbledon against Colombian Daniel Elahí Galán (112) and Marco Trungelliti (206) from Santiago, who at the age of 31 surpassed the previous classification for the first time, will face the French Benjamin Bonzi (118 ).
On Monday's day, the matches that the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas -recent finalist of Roland Garros- will play against the North American Frances Tiafoe and the Scotsman Andy Murray against the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Murray, 34, a former world No. 1, plagued by a hip injury that put him on the brink of retirement, returns after four years to Wimbledon, where he was champion in 2013 and 2016.
The British Grand Slam, which distributes prizes for $ 49 million, will have significant absences this year: the Spanish Rafael Nadal (3), the Austrian Dominic Thiem (5) and the Romanian Simona Halep (3), defender of the title he conquered in 2019.
Only two Argentines reached the final in Wimbledon history: Gabriel Sabatini, who lost it to Germany's Steffi Graf in 1991, and David Nalbandian, defeated by Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the 2002 season.
Source: Télam
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