Jun 22, 2024, 12:29 ET
Pablo Carreño and Roberto Carballés They will star in the Spanish duel of the first round of the Mallorca grass tournament that is being played on the fields of the Country Club in the Mallorcan town of Santa Ponsa.
Carreño will play his first ATP 250 tournament since the injury to his right elbow that kept him out of competition for nine months. Carballés, for his part, has two titles in his record. ATP 250 (Quito and Marrakech) before facing the Majorcan tournament.
Regarding the list of seeds exempt from the first round, the American Ben Shelton (number 1 in the tournament) awaits a rival in the duel between the Italian Luca Nardi and the Australian Rinky Hijikata. Likewise, the Frenchman Ugo Humbert (2) will do the same waiting for Roberto Bautista or the Japanese Taro Daniel.
Among the South Americans present, The Chilean Alejandro Tabilo will face the naturalized Russian Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko or a player who leaves the qualifying phase. Thiago Monteiro could be a rival if he manages to overcome this instance.
The other four seeds do know their opponents in the first round: Frenchman Gael Monfils (6) will face Austrian Dominic Thiem in one of the most attractive matches of the first round; The American Jordan Thompson (7) will play against the Frenchman Yannick Hanfmann and the American Christopher Eubanks, current champion, will face the Czech Jakub Mensik.
