The French player Caroline Romeo fulfilled the predictions by winning by 6- and 6-3 in canadian Ana Grubor in the previous qualifying round of the tournament Mexico City. With this victory, the tennis player manages to add new points to her ranking to access the tournament of Mexico City.

Grubor managed to break his rival’s serve once, while Romeo, on the other hand, did it 5 times. Similarly, the French tennis player was 47% efficient on the first serve, committed 4 double faults and got 71% of the points on serve, while her opponent’s data is 45% efficient, 9 double faults and 43% points obtained on service.

the tournament of Mexico City (ITF Mexico 01A) previously has a qualifying phase where the lowest ranked tennis players compete for their place in the official tournament against the rest of the contenders. To do this, they must collect as many points as possible. During this part of the competition, specifically, a total of 29 players compete against each other. Moreover, it takes place between January 29 and February 4 on an outdoor hard court.

Tennis, a popular sport

Tennis is unquestionably a classic sport. Each year, four tournaments (called “Grand Slams”) attract all the attention of the world: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen travels to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the United States with the U.S. Open.

The rest of the year, players continue to play around the world, completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay That is grass.

tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sports start date of the tour. It was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a world sport. Divides into two categories: the male (ATP) and female (WTA) competition.

ATP

The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players which brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP circuit organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will get 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower echelon would be the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis fight . Moreover, he is also in charge of the Grand Slam tournaments.

The fight to be the best in history does not stop in the men’s category. The Spaniard Raphael Nadalthem Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and accumulate the most Grand Slam tournaments. The three players are often called ‘big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These promising tennis stars have stormed onto the world tennis circuit, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berretinigerman Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev Yes Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 in the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

WTA

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian has won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active phase and is a reference and an icon in the world of tennis.

Currently, many tennis players in the women’s category are competing to stay at the top of the world’s tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari That is Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his permanent retirement from tennis and ended an impressive career with several Grand Slam tournaments behind him. Now it’s the other players’ turn to take over and become number 1.