Leo Borg, son of Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg, has been invited to the Challenger 80 main draw and to the qualifying phase of the Andalusian Open, an ATP 250, which will be held in Marbella (Malaga) between March 28 and April 11, the organization reported.
The Challenger 80 will be played from March 28 to April 4 and, in it, Leo Borg will enter a box in which the first five seeds are Pablo Andújar, 55 of the ATP ranking, the Valencian Pedro Martínez, current champion of the tournament; Norbert Gombos, Roberto Carballés Baena and Dennis Novak.
The 17-year-old Swedish tennis player has also been invited to the qualifying phase of the ATP 250 tournament, which will be played from April 4 to 11 and in which the Russian has confirmed their participation Andrey Rublev, the Swiss Stan Wawrinka or the Spanish Pablo Carreño, Alejandro Davidovich and Pablo Andújar, among others.
Leo Borg has already achieved his first Grade I title a couple of weeks ago, by taking the Brasil Juniors Cup, tournament held in Porto Alegre in which he defeated Brazilian Bruno Kazahura in two sets.
Will be your third participation in a Challenger Tour tournament after invitations received last year in Bergamo (Italy) and Pau (France), where he couldn't get past the first few rounds.
Bjorn Borg, who will accompany his son, is a person closely linked to the city of Marbella and the Puente Romano tennis club, where he led the direction from 1979, the year of its inauguration, until 1983, at which point Wimbledon champion Manolo Santana took over.