The confirmation of the presence of Carlos Alcaraz, number 1 tennis player in the world, in the next edition of the Argentina Open has increased the interest in this tournamentwhich sold out almost all of its tickets, as reported by the event’s organizers on Wednesday.
“Of the boxes we had very little left before the Alcaraz announcement and they were sold out, no more corporate boxes; and tickets, Since the announcement that Alcaraz was coming until now, many have been sold“, affirms Argentine tennis player Martín Jaite, director of the Argentina Open, a competition that will be held in Buenos Aires from February 11 to 19.
According to Jaite, “there are no tickets” available for Friday, Saturday and Sundaydates on which the final bars of the Argentine Open will be played.
“It’s not that they’re crazy. There aren’t many tickets and we won’t be putting new tickets on sale, because we don’t have any“, explained the former athlete at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires, where the ceremony of presenting the contest was held.
Regarding the audience, those responsible for the Argentina Open are seeking to repeat the same number as last year, when there were between 55,000 and 56,000 spectators over the nine days of competition.
“For the organization, when there are too many people there is a greater responsibility; It is also a joy, but it implies more movement and organization. We can never go beyond 60,000 people because it does not give the space, it does not give the place, so we calculated that it will be the same as last year,” Jaite settled.
The Argentina Open, an ATP 250 tournament with more than twenty years of existence, is played on the clay of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, in the capital of Argentina, and distributes almost 630,000 dollars in prizes.
On January 11, the organization announced the presence of Alcaraz, who may lose the world number 1 at the Australian Open. in favor of the Norwegian Casper Ruud or the Serbian Novak Djokovic, after the Spanish Rafa Nadal was eliminated in the second round.
The Spaniard is the favorite of the Buenos Aires team, followed by the British Cameron Norrieworld number 12, and Italian Lorenzo Musetti, a United Cup finalist in Australia earlier this year.
Source: La Verdad
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