Wimbledon started with a win and two losses for the Argentine rackets

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in the beginning of Wimbledon, Nadia Podoroska prevailed in his debut and advanced to the next instance, while Sebastian Baez and Pedro Cachinwho had the hard challenge of facing novak Djokovicthey were eliminated in a day full of action for the albiceleste players.

podoroska She was the first to win this Monday, when she prevailed against the Czech Teresa Martincova by 3-6, 7-6 (5) and 6-4 in almost two and a half hours of play, so Rosario will face the Belarusian in the next instance victoria azarenka.

baez He jumped onto the field in the first turn and also fell against the Chilean Tomas Barrios Vera with partials of 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-3 and 7-6 (2), after an interruption due to rain.

besides, Pedro Cachin he lost to the serbian Novak Djokovicnumber 2 in the world and seven times champion in the Tennis Cathedral (2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022), by 6-3, 6-3 and 7-6 (4).

Later it will be the turn of diego schwartzmannwho has been going through a very complicated 2023 and will seek to change the image with a good participation in Wimbledon that allows you to climb several positions. He little he started the year in 25th place, but a series of poor results dropped him out of the top 100 during June.

His rival will be the complicated and dangerous Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic and, although in the history the Argentine comfortably leads 3-0, all the matches were on brick dust and the situation on grass could be another.

In the second round there could be a clash between Argentines, since the winner of the match between schwartzman and kecmanovic will face the vendor of the crossing between Juan Manuel Cerundolo and the italian jannik sinnernumber 8 in the world and one of the great candidates.

Meanwhile, one of the Argentine hopes will be Thomas Etcheverrywho excited all Argentines with his great participation in Roland Garroswhere he lost in the quarterfinals against the German Alexander Zverev.

etcheverrywho will start as the 28th seed, will play in the first round against the Spanish Barnabas Zapata Miralles and in the second round he could come across a tennis legend like Stan Wawrinkawinner of three titles grand slam.

The other Argentine who will play today will be guido peels, who in 2019 gave the big blow by reaching the quarterfinals in the tournament. In the first round he will have an interesting test, since his rival will be the Croatian borna coricthat despite being the 14th in the world, he has not won a game in eight years Wimbledon.

The action between the Argentines will continue on Tuesday, first with the match between the Portuguese nuño Borges and Buenos Aires Francisco Cerundolowho comes from cutting a 28-year drought for Argentines on grass by winning in eastbourne and he arrives at the best moment of his career: very good results, he reached the fourth round in Roland Garros and occupies the 19th position in the ranking.

then he will play federico coriathat at the age of 31 he will go in search of his first victory on the London pitch against the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka.

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