The Argentinian Diego Schwartzmanchampion of Los Cabos Tennis Open in 2019was announced this Tuesday as one of the attractions of the ATP category 250 tournament next February.
In a press conference, competition director Geoffrey Fernández confirmed that Schwartzman, 107th in the world ranking, received an invitation (wild card) and will join as one of the most prestigious figures along with five tennis players in 12 best in ranking present for the fair.
Announced a few weeks ago, this Tuesday the German were confirmed as favorites for the 2024 edition. Alexander Zverevsixth racket in the ATP, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, seventh, the Dane Holger Rune8th, the Australian Alex de Minaurtenth, and the Norwegian Casper Ruudeleventh.
“We have a cut to number 62 in the world, something that some ATP 500s like; a close like this is not seen in an ATP 250,” he said.
Los Cabos will be held this year for the first time in February, from the 19th to the 24th, a week before the Acapulco Tennis Open, the 500th tournament before the 1,000th Masters in Indian Wells and Miami, which -scheduled for March.
The novelty of organizing two Mexican tournaments against each other has drawn the attention of some of the world’s best select competitions ahead of the tour to the United States.
This year Los Cabos will have other high levels, like the American Christopher Eubanks35 in the world, the Russian Roman Safiullin (36), the British Daniel Evans (38), the Italian Matteo Arnaldi (41), the American Mackenzie McDonald(42), and the Australians Max Purcell (45) and Jordan Thompson (47).
Fernández accepted that although they expected high quality players, those who said yes to the tournament exceeded expectations, which will allow Los Cabos to be of higher quality.
In addition to Schwartzman, other champions in Los Cabos are the Croatian Ivo Karlovic (2016), the American Sam Querrey (2017), the Italian Fabio Fognini (2018), the British Cameron Norrie (2021), the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2022). ) and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (2023).
Source: La Verdad
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