María Camila Osorio and Emiliana Arango (Blanca Corra), Colombian tennis players in the Billie King Cup play-offs, which is held at the Hatographice Club of Sopó.
Photo: Mauricio Alvarado Lozada
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In a superpoblated main team of European players, The Colombian Camila Osorio and Emiliana Arango will face Latin America in the WTA 500 tournament in Guadalajarawhich starts on Monday.
Both Colombian rackets return to Mexico, where the titles have been elusive, although in WTA 250 category tournaments.
Osorio was runner -up in Monterrey in 2022 and Arango lost the final of the Mérida tournament this year.
Located in the 63rd place of the WTA ranking, Osorio will leave as an eighth head of the series in Guadalajara; In the first round he will face the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova (65).
“I am very happy to return to my second home, I come to enjoy this great tournament again,” said Osorio, who will play the Guadalajara Open for the fourth consecutive year.
The tennis player from Cucutá, 23, Look in Guadalajara the fourth title of his careerafter April was crowned for the third time in the WTA 250 of Bogotá.
On the other hand, Emiliana Arango (84 of the ranking), 24, will leave for the first title of his career. His debut will be before the fifth preclassified, the Polaca Magda Linette (37).
The previous week, the Medellín player arrived at the quarterfinals of a WTA 125 that was also held in Guadalajara and in which tennis players participated who will be in the main team next week, such as the Canadian Rebecca Marino and the Polish Katarzyna Kawa.
Sakkari and Frech want to repeat
The main box was made up of two notable absences: The American Emma Navarro (11) and the Spanish Paula Badosa (16) They got off the tournament in the capital of Jalisco after their presences have been announced.
Without Navarro or Badosa, the tournament was left without players located in the top 20. Therefore, the first sown is the Belga Elise Mertens (21),which will debut in second round.
Mertens, 29, will leave for the eleventh title of his career in individual. In June, it was crowned in the 250 Tournament of 'S-HertoGenbosch, in the Netherlands.
In Guadalajara there will be two former champions: La Griega Maria Sakkariwinner in 2023, and THE POLACH Magdalena Frechwhich will defend the title he achieved in 2024.
“I am very happy. Two years have passed, I am very pleased to be back,” said Sakkari, who did not appear to the 2024 edition to defend his crown.
Sakkari (64) will face the Frenchman Elsa Jacquemot (91) in the first round.
Frech (33), fourth preclassified, will debut in the second round.
In addition to Mertens and Fis Veronika Kudermertova (25), Second Head of series, and the letona Deer residue (26), third.
The WTA 500 of Guadalajara will be played on the hard surface tracks of the Pan American Tennis Complex and distribute a million dollars in prizes.
First round matches:
- Maria Sakkari (GRE) – Elsa Jacquemot (FRA)
- Martina Trevisan (ITA) – Rebecca Marino (Can)
- Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) – Tatjana Maria (GER/N.6)
- Polina Kudermetova (RUS) – Qualy
- Storm Hunter (AUS) – Katerina Siniakova (Jun)
- Emilian Arango (Col) – Magda Lindette (Pol/N.5)
- Alycia Parks (USA/N.7) – Qualy
- Nikola Bartunkova (Jun) – Qualy
- Sloane Stephens (USA) – Qualy
- Camila Osorio (Col/N.8) – Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS)
- Katarzyna Kawa (POL) – IVA Jovic (USA)
- Qualy – Qualy
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