This Tuesday, Argentina presented the tennis team that will defend the albiceleste colors on the clay of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in the absence of the number two ranked player in the doubles category, Horacio Zeballos.
“The players always know what the conditions are and unfortunately Horacio will not be able to participate in two important Davis Cup series. He entered there Andrés Molteni Toy Maximo Gonzalez. The decision was one hundred percent sporting,” declared the captain of the Argentine team. Guillermo Coria at a press conference.
Coria added that Zeballos understood the situation and considered the reasons, despite the disappointment caused by missing the Olympic event. The Argentine number two is a regular partner of the Spaniard Marcel Granollers, with whom he came to occupy the first position in the classification last May.
The Argentine team was presented at an event attended by the president of the Argentine Tennis Association (AAT), the former tennis player Agustín Calleri, including the women’s team captain and former professional Mercedes Paz.
The squad will consist of four players for individual duels: Sebastián Baez (18), Francisco Cerúndolo (27), Mariano Navone (32) and Tomás Etcheverry (31). On the other hand, the couple for men’s doubles is the aforementioned Máximo González (20) and Andrés Molteni (18).
Nadia Podoroska (65) and Lourdes Carlé (71) will be representatives for unmarried women, although there is a possibility of commitment Julia Riera (104) eventually also entered the call, according to Paz.
The gold medalist at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata in 1995 is excited about the presence of women in Argentine tennis for that tournament to be held at the stadium in Roland Garros.
“It’s something unique, I think it’s a good experience and where the players have a completely different perspective than the athlete in general. Olympism is the purest version of sport,” declared the former player who competed in three editions of the Olympic Games.
The two captains agreed that the clay of the capital of Paris, a favorite surface for tournaments held in the country, makes the team one of the favorites in the fight for medals.
The Olympic tennis match will take place in Paris from July 27 to August 4.
Source: La Verdad
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