This Tuesday will be the debut of all Colombian tennis players in the main draw of the WTA125 Cup, a competition based on the clay courts of Club Campestre de Cali, with a prize pool of 115 thousand dollars, plus hospitality for players. The Colombian cards in this competition are the Antioquia Emiliana Arango, the vallecaucana Yuliana Lizarazoand the Atlanticans Maria Fernanda Herazo Yes Maria Paulina Perez.

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Emiliana Arango’s rival is Canadian Carol Zhao, currently No. 163 in the WTA rankings and who officiates as the seventh seed. This will be the third meeting between the two players, in a history that favors North America, which won twice ; one of those matches was played on brick dust, the same surface the Oster Cup WTA 125 is played on and the victory went to Zhao.

Meanwhile, Yuliana Lizarazo will face American Whitney Osuigwe, with whom he does not record confrontations. The gold medalist in the doubles modality at the last South American Games in Asunción 2022, returns to play a professional tournament in Cali after ten years, remembering that the most recent was the Bionaire Cup in 2013. For her part, the 20-year-old North American, he had a brilliant career as a junior, winning Roland Garros in 2017; He was also world No. 1 in this category.

The Atlantic is the region that contributes the most representatives to the main draw by María Fernanda Herazo and María Paulina Pérez; Herazo will face Ukrainian Valeriya Strakhova and Pérez against Chinese Xiaodi You. ‘Mafe’ have faced their rival twice, the record shows a victory by team; Meanwhile, Pérez will face the Asian for the first time.

The organization of the tournament has not yet defined the schedules of the matches of the Colombians; In addition, on Tuesday, the confrontation between the Hungarian Reka-Luca Jani and the Argentinian Nadia Podoroska, semi-finalist at Roland Garros 2020, stands out.

*Press information.