Francisco Comesana had not won a single match on the ATP circuit before Wimbledon 2024. In less than a week, his career changed. In his debut, he defeated world number 6 Andrey Rublev. Before that, he had never defeated a player in the top 90 of the ATP ranking at the time of the match.
In the second set he defeated the Australian Adam Walton 75 16 67(12) 61 76(8) after four hours and eight minutes. He is the only Argentine in the draw, he has secured a cheque for 182,530 dollars (more than he has earned so far in the whole of 2024), and he will be the opponent of Lorenzo Musetti for a place in the round of 16.
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Francisco Comesana wins a five-set thriller over Walton 7-5, 1-6, 6-7(12), 6-1, 7-6(10-8) ??#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/QPNbsu0Jph
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The 23-year-old Comesana’s journey began 16 years ago, when he started playing tennis in Mar del Plata. As a child, he mostly played soccer in the backyard. Then one day a friend asked him to try tennis. “I started for him,” he said after his victory over Rublev, “and I liked it. My other friends, on the other hand, quit while I continued to train against the wall, four or five hours a day.”
Struck by tennis, Vincenzo Martucci wrote, “at 6 years old, he abandoned football to wander among many academies, from Horacio Zeballos senior to Dani Larreina at Náutico, from Federico Cardinali to the former pro Bettina Fulco, at 16 he emigrated to Buenos Aires to train with Toto Cerundolo (father of the pros Juan Manuele. Francisco), the Covid Pandemic brought him back to Mar del Plata, in 2021 he relied on coach Facundo Arguello to gain experience in the Futures then he moved to Cordoba to the home of his colleague Benjamin Alarcon, to learn to live as a professional until marrying, since last year, the current technical guide, Sebastian Gutierrez. With whom he is trying to transition from the B series of the Challenger tournaments to the A series of the ATP Tour, with his essential tennis, great liveliness of the feet and courage in titrating all the shots”.
The only Argentine still in the draw at Wimbledon in men’s singles, Comesana is one of seven players who have debuted in a Slam in men’s singles in this edition of the tournament. Previously, in the Slams he had attempted qualifications three times, in vain: he had stopped in the third round at the US Open 2023, in the second at the Australian Open 2023 and in the first at the US Open 2022.
This is his fourth tournament on the ATP circuit, after first-round defeats this year in Cordoba, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, in the clay-court portion of the season in South America following the Australian Open.
He played mainly on the Challenger circuit where this year he celebrated his fifth career title in Oeiras-3, Portugal, and reached the semi-final in Mauthausen.
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