The Roland Garros Junior Series starts this Wednesday (3), at Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis, in São Paulo. The competition runs until Sunday and will offer places in the main draw of the Grand Slam youth tournament on French clay. All matches will have live broadcast on ESPN on Star+.
What is the Roland Garros Junior Series?
The tournament was born as a result of a collaboration between the French Tennis Federation (FFT), the South American Tennis Confederation (Cosat) and the Brazilian Tennis Confederation (CBT). There will be 32 tennis players, 16 boys and 16 girls, all under 16 years old and from 11 different countries in Latin America.
The competition system is simple: players will be divided into four groups of four players each, and everyone will play against everyone within their own bracket. The best two in each qualify for the semifinals, and the winners go to the final. The men’s and women’s champions guarantee a place in the main draw of Roland Garros Júnior, the Grand Slam youth tournament in France.
Who is going to play?
Brazil will be represented by 11 tennis players in total. In the men’s category, Pedro Chabalgoity, Luiz Augusto Miguel, Pedro Dietrich and Washington Matos qualified; in the women’s category, Pietra Rivoli, Nauhany Silva, Sofia Albieri and Alicia Reichel. In addition to them, three other tennis players received invitations, so-called wild cards, from the CBT: Thomas Miranda, Leonardo Storck and Isabeli Andreola.
See how the groups and all participating tennis players are divided:
Masculine
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Group A – Luis Miguel (BRA), Nicolas Baena (PER), Faustino Boffelli (ARG) and Benjamin Pérez (CHI)
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Group B – Dante Pagani (ARG), Emilio Camacho (ECU), Pedro Dietrich (BRA) and Alvaro Frutos (PAR)
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Group C – Mauricio Schtulmann (MEX), Alejandro Bejarano (BOL), Washington Matos (BRA) and Leonardo Storck (BRA)
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Group D – Lucas Velasco (COL), Guilherme do Val (BRA), Felipe Vásquez (URU) and Thomas Miranda (BRA)
Feminine
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Group A – Sol Larraya (ARG), Isabeli Andreola (BRA), Sofia Barbosa (URU) and Nauhany Silva (BRA)
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Group B – Pietra Rivoli (BRA), Sabrina Balderrama (VEN), Micaela Moro (PER) and Viktoria Monge (ECU)
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Group C – Candela Vázquez (ARG), Valery Sumoya (BOL), Sofia Albieri (BRA) and Zoe Doldan (PAR)
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Group D – Hannne Estrada (MEX), Agustina Soto (CHI), Maria Jose Sanchez (COL) and Alicia Reichel (BRA)
How to watch and exchange tickets?
All games will have live broadcast on ESPN on Star+. Windows start at 11:30am on Wednesday and Thursday, and 11am on Friday. On Saturday, the day of the semi-finals, the start will be at 12:30 pm; while on Sunday, the date of the decisions, the disputes will take place from 2:30 pm.
For those who want to watch the Roland Garros Junior Series in person at Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis, in São Paulo, tickets are free. Each person may request up to four tickets per game day. All orders must be made exclusively through Digital Ticket Office website.
