The AAT Challenger The Santa Fe edition will be the fourth ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Argentina in 2024, after the two competitions held in Buenos Aires and another in Tucumán. The main draw will begin on Monday, June 3 and will have the final on the 9th, while the qualy will begin on this Sunday with the presence of a man from Santa Fe, Lautaro Corthey trained by Enzo Artoni in Solares de la Laguna.
Qualifying begins in Santa Fe
The tournament will be played at the Santa Fe Lawn Tennis Club, like the two editions held in 2023, which were a success and both were dedicated to Mariano Navone from Buenos Aires, with 1,200 people who witnessed the semifinals and final during the weekend. In addition, it awards 50 ATP points to the champion and distributes US$50,000 in prizes.
On this Sunday the action begins with the dispute of the qualy in which the Santa Fe native Lautaro Corthey, entered in the classification as a guest (wild cards) will face Bautista Vilicich from the Buenos Aires town of Balcarce in the central court. In that same scenario, Tomás Farjat from Ramallah will play, who already played in the first tournament, he will face the Cordoban Valentín Basel, Leonardo Abojan from Buenos Aires will do so with Thiago Cigarrán, and the Ecuadorian Marcos Lee Chan Baratau against his compatriot Emilio Gómez.
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Tomás Farjat from Ramallah, who already played in July 2023, will also be the protagonist of the classification.
On court 2 of the Costanera Avenue entity, Santiago de la Fuente from Dolores will face the Uruguayan Ignacio Carou, the Argentines Manuel Mouilleron Salvo and Franco Ribero, Rocco Valente from Buenos Aires will play with the North American Alexander Stater, and the Colombian Juan Sebastián Gómez will do it with the Argentine Felipe De Dios, winner of the prequaly. On court 3 the North American Dali Blanch will play with Alexey Mesterov, the Colombian Juan Sebastián Osorio with the Brazilian Rafael Tosetto, the Brazilian Igor Giménez with Aleksandr Lobanov, the Buenos Aires native Gonzalo Ariel Karakachian against the North American Trey Hilderbrand.
Lautaro Corthey from Santa Fe will face Bautista Vilicich, and if he overcomes him, he will meet in the next instance the winner of the clash between Ecuadorians, it will be Marcos Lee Chan Baratau or Emilio Gómez. Corthey, 25, is coached by Enzo Artoni at the academy located in Solar de la Laguna in the Colastiné district. His beginnings were with Creole tennis, but he already played the Challenger tournament in the first edition in the city of Santa Fe.
More details of the Challenger in Santa Fe
It is important to highlight that the Wild Cards were defined for the Qualy of the AAT Challenger Santa Fe edition. In this way all the special invitations to the most important professional tennis tournament in the province of Santa Fe were defined. Alejo Lingua Lavallén, a native, entered the main draw from Marcos Juárez (Córdoba), Juan Estévez from the Buenos Aires town of 25 de Mayo, and Ezequiel Monferrer from the province of Misiones.
In the editions held last year, Mariano Navone was the winner on both occasions. In the second he defeated the Italian Andrea Pellegrino in the final by 3-6, 6-2 and 6-3, while in the first edition of the competition held in the capital of Santa Fe, he won after beating the Paraguayan Adolfo Daniel Vallejo by 6- 2 and 6-4. The Santa Fe Challenger takes place on clay surface courts at the Santa Fe Lawn Tennis Club facilities.
