Santo Domingo.- The first national racket, Nick Hardt, will debut this Tuesday at the RD Open 2024, presented by the Ministry of Tourism, when he faces the Australian Bernard Tomic at the MITUR stadium, not before 5:00 p.m.
Hardt’s rival is currently ranked 250th in the world in the ATP rankings, but in 2016 he was ranked 17th.
In addition to Hardt, on Tuesday, Dominican Peter Bertran will play in doubles in the last round of the night alongside American Tennyson Whiting to face the fourth favorites, Ryan Seggerman and Patrik Trhac, of the United States.
The 2015 RD Open champion, third-seeded Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, will open the card against American Cannon Kingsley, who came through the qualifier. After the Hardt/Tomic match, the tournament’s number one, Argentine Federico Coria and his compatriot Facundo Mena will face each other in a first-round encounter.
Results
In the opening round of the main draw matches on Monday, fourth seeded Serbian Laslo Djere defeated Frenchman Maxime Janvier in two tight sets 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).
Later, after a long rallies, Argentine Juan Pablo Ficovich defeated Dominican Peter Bertran 6-3, 6-2.
In other first-round results, seventh seed Murkiel Dellien of Bolivia needed three sets to defeat Canadian Alexis Galarneau 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-1.
The tournament
The RD Open 2024 is an ATP Challenger 125 tournament that takes place on the courts of the Santo Domingo Tennis Club (La Bocha) until next Saturday, August 11. The event features international athletes among the best 100 in the world in doubles and singles.
The Santo Domingo Challenger distributes a prize pool of 164 thousand dollars among the participants and awards 125 points to the doubles and singles champions.
Tickets are available at Uepa Tickets, as well as on the official website rdopentennis.com. All information about the tournament is available on the Instagram account @rdopentennis
The eighth edition of the Santo Domingo Challenger has the support of the Ministry of Tourism, Banreservas, Arla Foods, Casa Brugal, Hotel Radisson Santo Domingo, Café Santo Domingo, Universal de Seguros, Shell Dominicana, Claro, X1000 Motor, Gatorade, Ekatex, Ilusound, Lincer Tennis Academy, Plutus Capital, HiFi Electrodomesticos, RH Mejía, Top Ten Events and Promo Umbrella.
