The circuit of the Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP) is getting closer to its final chapter. For some it will be in the week of November 25, in which five tournaments in the category will take place. Challenger. For those who are among the top one hundred in the world, 21 days before in the ATP of Belgrade and of Metz. However, 32 tennis players, the most outstanding of the season, will make an extra effort: From the 11th to the 17th of the aforementioned month, the Masters Tournament, today called ATP Finals, will be held at the Inalpi Arena in Turin.both in singles and doubles.
For its part, the couples modality will have an albiceleste presence. Horacio Zeballoswho will play with the Spanish Marcel Granollersand the duo that makes up the Davis Cup team, Máximo González and Andrés Molteniwill be presented in the Italian city. From December 16 to 22, close to the new beginning of the tennis year in Australiait will be up to those under 21 years of age only in singles. The Brazilian jewel Joaco Fonsecawho is in seventh place, could become the first South American to play the competition since 2021. That edition featured Sebastián Báez and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo.
On the other side of the globe, far from the bidding for the most succulent points that these top-level events offer, the Challenger 75 from Guayaquil. The competition hosted by the Tennis Club Annex means the sixth in a series of twelve that the region receives. The start was in September in CaliColombia, and then passed through Chile, Argentina and Brazil. This fruitful series for the region’s tennis players will culminate next month with two historic events in Saint Paul y Temucoon fast cement courts, facing the first weeks of 2025. Before that it will be the turn of Lima y Montevideoon the original surface of this tour, brick dust.
After the first day of qualification, Monday’s card marked nine Argentines on the field in the Ecuadorian competition. Five of them were looking for a place in the final draw of the tournament. Finally, those who achieved it were Alex Barrenawho defeated his compatriot Genaro Olivieriy Mariano Kestelboim. For its part, Leonardo Aboián and Ignacio Monzón They stayed at the doors. Both lost in the third set tie-break against the American Garrett Johns and the dutch Ryan Nijboerrespectively.
In the penultimate turn of the Court Centralone of the great protagonists of the event made his debut: Federico Coria. The second seed faced Nicholas Kicker for the initial round, seeking to reverse an adverse present that expelled him from the Top 100. After nine breaks in total, the native of Venado Tuerto sealed the victory by a hard-fought 7-6 (5) and 6-4. Kicker, who played through protected ranking, served to take the first set and then led 4-1 in the second.
Minutes later, on the same stage, it was the turn of Marco Trungelliti. The man from Santiago, who does not usually frequent these lands, returned to the continent last year after being away for five years. On this occasion, it collided with the local Andres Andrade at its premiere at the Ecuadorian event. After three tense hours, Andrade hit the ball and won a vibrant match by 5-7, 6-3 y 7-6 (3) to make the public explode. Although the albiceleste had several chances, they were unable to achieve them and the situation became difficult. Anyway, he came out ahead and ended up taking it in the final tiebreaker.
On Tuesday, seven other Argentines will play their first phase duels. Among them, the clash between compatriots of Juan Manuel Cerúndolo and Renzo Olivothe presentation of Romanian Burruchaga against the Brazilian Pedro Sakamoto and that of the first seed of the contest Francisco Comesaña before his Ecuadorian namesake Francisco Castro.
