Brazilians know their opponents in the Rome quali

Rome Italy) – The men’s and women’s draws for the qualifiers for the Rome tournament were announced this Sunday, which, like Madrid, is held simultaneously by the ATP and WTA and is worth a thousand points for the champions. Brazil will have three representatives in the preliminary round and each will need to win two games to enter the main draw.

Among the men, Thiago Monteiro and Felipe Meligeni Alves will face different challenges in their quali debut. The left-hander from Ceará opens his campaign at around 8am this Monday, Brasília time, against the Italian guest Giovanni Oradini, only 376th in the world. The São Paulo native will face the Frenchman Hugo Gastón, 95th in the ranking and seventh seed, at 5am.

If he wins, Monteiro will have on his way the winner of the clash between also Frenchman Corentin Moutet, 88th placed and fourth main participant in the preliminary phase, and Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who appears today in 145th position in the ATP. In turn, Meligeni knows that he will have another French opponent if he gets through the first round, which will come from the match between alternate Giovanni Perricard, 124th in the world, and Gregoire Barrere, 108th in the ranking and 16th pre-classified in the competition.

Pigossi faces Andreeva’s older sister

In the women’s group, the national representative in this category will be Laura Pigossi from São Paulo, who will face in her debut, also at 5am this Monday, the Russian Erika Andreeva, 19 years old and ranked 102nd in the WTA. She is the older sister of Mirra Andreeva, who at 17 is already number 43 in the world.

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The winner of this confrontation will decide a place in the main draw against whoever advances from the duel between the Spanish Rebeka Masarova, 89th in the ranking and 11th seed in the qualifier, and the Italian guest Sofia Rocchetti, only 427th.

Bia and Wild are already guaranteed

While Pigossi, Monteiro and Meligeni will play the preliminary round in search of a place in the main draw, two other Brazilians are already guaranteed in the ranking competition. Among the women, Beatriz Haddad Maia from São Paulo will try to defend last year’s quarterfinals, and in the men’s tournament, Thiago Wild from Paraná will make his debut at the Foro Italico in Rome.

Of the other three, only Thiago Monteiro has played the tournament before, stopping in the first round in 2017 and in the second phase in 2023. In turn, Felipe Meligeni was one victory away from qualifying last year and Laura Pigossi did not make it past her debut. in the qualifying stage.