Categories: Tennis

Feliciano and Verdasco look for their ticket to Roland Garros

This Monday officially started the great event of the season on clay: Roland Garros. He did it with the start of the previous round, in which the tennis players look for one of the 16 places to access the final men’s and women’s draw of the tournament, and in which this year we will see several illustrious players of the racket in action.

One of them is Toledo Feliciano López, who wants to continue extending his historic streak of consecutive appearances in the final draws of a Grand Slam. ‘Feli’ will seek his presence in his eightieth Grand Slam in a row and for this he will begin his adventure in the preliminary this Tuesday (around 2:00 p.m. on court 4) against the Italian Gian Marco Moroni.

For its part, Fernando Verdasco wants to show that he can still shine in the big tournaments on the calendar after a last year marked by injuries. Verdasco, who will start as the fifth seed, will face the Bosnian Damir Dzumhur in the first round of qualifying this Tuesday (around 4:00 p.m. on court 14).

Vilella and Zapata, on stage

Two Spanish tennis players, along with ‘Feli’ and Verdasco, complete the list of the Navy in the previous one and both entered the fray this Monday. Mario Vilella from Elche opened the day on Court 6 against Australian Aleksandar Vukic, and lost 7-5 and 6-4, while Bernabé Zapata from Valencia made his debut with more success in the last turn on Court 2 against Israeli Dudi Sela, whom he won 6-3 and 6-0. He will face Portugal’s Gastao Elias on Wednesday.

‘Feli’, Verdasco and Zapata will try to join the wide Spanish representation with a place in the final table of Roland Garros that they form Rafa Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Pablo Carreño, Roberto Bautista, Alejandro Davidovich, Pedro Martínez, Albert Ramos, Pablo Andújar, Carlos Taberner and Jaume Munar.

Five tennis players seek the pass in the women’s draw

In the preview of the Roland Garros women’s draw, five Spanish players will seek to join the already qualified Paula Badosa, Garbiñe Muguruza, Sara Sorribes and Nuria Párrizas in the final draw of the tournament.

This Monday the Barcelonan Georgina García Pérez, who fell 6-3 and 7-6 (4) against the Russian Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the first turn of the day on court 15, and the Cantabrian Cristina Bucsa, that was measured in the last turn of this same Court 15 to Olga Govortsova, whom she got rid of 6-1 and 6-3. She awaits him in the second round, on Wednesday, the Australian Arina Rodionova.

As of Tuesday, the other three Spanish representatives will enter the fray in the previous one. Aliona Bolsova will debut against Liechtenstein tennis player Kathinka Von Deichmann (10:00 on court 13). For its part, Rebekah Masarova will be measured against the Serbian Olga Danilovic (around 18:00 on court 6). Complete the clashes of the Spanish, the Barcelona Andrea Lazarus, who will start the preliminary against the Swedish Mirjam Bjorklund (around 12:00 on court 3) with the illusion of achieving a ticket to the final table of Roland Garros. Matches can be viewed with a Eurosport subscription.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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