Argentine tennis players Diego Schwartzman, Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez They will play from next Monday Paris Masters 1000last tournament of the regular calendar of the circuit that will have the Spanish as favorites Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadaland to Serbian Novak Djokovicdefending champion.
The contest will be played at the Palais Omnisports de Bercy in the French capital, on a fast surface and indoors, and will distribute prizes of 5,415,410 euros, being the end of the season before the Masters that will bring together the eight best rackets of 2022 in Turin, Italy, from November 8.
The draw for the main draw determined that “Little” Schwartzman, ranked 21st in the ATP world ranking, will debut in the opening round against American of French origin Maxime Cressy (34), a rival he beat the only time who met last year at the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells.
The draw was not benevolent for the “Peque”, since if he passes the initial round he will have to face Djokovic (7), champion in Paris in the 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2021 editions.
Cerúndolo 29), for his part, champion this year at the Swedish ATP in Bastad, will debut against Canadian Denis Shapovalov (19), whom he has not faced before.
In the case of advancing to the second round, Cerúndolo will meet a Spaniard: Pablo Carreño Busta (15) or Albert Ramos (40).
Lastly, Báez (39) will face Russian Karen Khachanov (18) in the opening round in what will be the first meeting between the two on the circuit.
In the case of overcoming it, the Argentine, champion this year in the Portuguese ATP in Estoril, will meet in the next round with the Italian Jannik Sinner (12) or a tennis player who emerged from the classification.
In qualifying to enter the main draw, Argentinean Pedro Cachín (55) was eliminated on this day, who lost to Frenchman Quentin Halys (69) 7-6 (9-7) and 6-3 in an hour and a half of play.
The Cordovan born in Bell Ville 27 years ago put an end to the best year of his career, in which he started in 245th place and managed to climb 190 places after winning four Challenger tournaments, in Madrid, Prague, Todi (Italy). and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
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As for the favorites in Paris, Alcaraz (1), Nadal (2), the Norwegian Casper Ruud (3), the Russian Daniil Medvedev (4), the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), the aforementioned Djokovic (7), the Russian Andrey Rublev (8) and Canadian Félix Auger Aliassime (9) will be exempt from the opening round.
The only Argentine tennis player who lifted the trophy in Paris was David Nalbandian from Unquillo from Cordoba in the 2007 edition after winning the final over “Rafa” Nadal 6-4, 6-0.
