Argentine tennis continues to rise: this Thursday The <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2024/11/tennis-tennis-jockey-will-host-the-atp-calendar/" title="Tennis – Tennis: Jockey will host the ATP calendar“>Rosario Challenger, category 125, was confirmed, which will make it the largest Challenger Tour event in the country and in one of the most relevant in the region.
The new tournament will be played during the first week of February 2025more precisely from the 2nd to the 9th of that month, at the Rosario Jockey Club, the venue where this year The Argentine Davis Cup team won 3-2 against Kazakhstan by the Qualifiers to the group stage.
The contest, organized by Torneos, It will be located in week number six of the official ATP calendar, seven days after the epilogue of the Oceania tour that will culminate with the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.
The completion of the Challenger Rosary is guaranteed, at least for three seasons: 2025, 2026 and 2027. It should be noted that will be placed in the first portion of the South American clay tour and will replace, that week, the Córdoba Open, which was held at the Kempes Sports Center from 2019 to 2024.
The Jockey Club of Rosario excelled this year in the series between Argentina and Kazakhstan that deposited to Guillermo Coria’s team in the Manchester group stage, after which they qualified for the Final 8 in Malagawhich will be from November 19 to 24.
“That Torneos has selected our JCR as the venue for Challenger 125 on the official ATP calendar We are pleased and confirm us on the path that, as a club, we have been traveling for almost ten years, when we founded the Tennis Development School directed by Alberto “Luli” Mancini (NdR: former 8th in the world and captain of the Davis Cup , two-time world finalist)”, said Charles Roberts, the president of the Jockey Club, happy to host this brand new tournament.
“From Tournaments we continue working for the development of tennis in our country and it gives us great joy to hold a new tournament in such an emblematic club in Rosario,” said Gustavo Isaack, president of Torneos, whose tennis unit, in addition to the Córdoba Open, carry forward the Buenos Aires Challenger since the 2015 edition.
Rosario has a strong commitment to Argentine sports with international projection. It is the cradle of great exponents such as Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria, Luciana Aymar, William Coria, Nadia Podoroska, Mariana Diaz Oliva, Facundo Bagnis, Alberto Mancini, Eduardo Schwank and Mary Terran de Weiss.
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