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Hardworking and wise, more and more are accompanying professional tennis players from all over the world. However, the legacy starts much earlier.
Grand Slam tournaments are a privileged showcase and they show the world the quality and hierarchy of national tennis. The atmosphere wonders what happens in Argentina that so many players emerge, because it is almost a routine that some compatriot shakes with a bump and brings out his grit and his tireless fighting spirit. And any result from now on is enhanced on big stages like Roland Garros.
It is true that for us the Parisian tournament is something very special. It is a goal, an objective, a dream to fulfill. As the tennis player grows, he renews his expectations in this very tournament. First it is to play the classification, then it is to enter the main draw and in the end it is to try to play another edition. Winning a match is a dream for those who as a child ever imagined being on a stage of such magnitude. And it does not cease to surprise us that it is almost a routine that names appear in tournaments of this importance.
Because while Roland Garros welcomes Genaro Olivieri, who reached the third round without ever having played a main draw in ATP tournaments, and allows him to show his evolution, it also spreads the rug to established Argentines, who sometimes rediscover their confidence in this tournament, and many other youngsters who arrive with prestige and a ranking of great champions.
Now, why do so many players come out in Argentina? What’s going on? The fans of the world watch and enjoy our players, who compete with great humility and at the same time with enormous confidence. But while the world looks at the players, the international tennis players want the Argentine coaches. To those who trained those who are on the field surprising many or making themselves known.
It’s like the foreign tennis player sometimes sees in the Argentine a kind of mirror in which he would like to see his own evolution, his own growth. So this ends up being like a quest to wonder what the secret is, what the formula is. What do the players have? What do those Argentine coaches have that are listed and are highly sought after?
Juan Pablo Varillas makes history for Peru at the hands of Diego Junqueira. Photo: EFE
The list is growing: Andrés Schneiter with Cristian Garín, Diego Junqueira with the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas, Facundo Lugones and Sebastián Prieto with the British Cameron Norrie and Daniel Evans, Sebastián Gutiérrez with the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild, Eduardo Infantino with the American Brandon Nakashima, Alberto Mancini and Juan Pablo Brzezicki with the Germans Daniel Altmaier and Yannick Hanfmann, Germán Gaich with the Italian Fabio Fognini, Franco Davin with the Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the women’s circuit, Gustavo Marcaccio in the Spanish Rafael Nadal’s team and in his academy, and Dante Bottini, who was with Kei Nishikori and Grigor Dimitrov. And you can go on for a long time
The links are very valuable when assembling the chain. The tennis player is the last link, but the most valuable in this chain of values are the teachers who with enormous passion and commitment put a little racket in the hand of that boy or girl and make them fall in love with the sport. And at the same time they give that initial training, which is the key foundation, because they make the child become fond of a sport that at first can be unfriendly due to the difficulty.
Learning to play takes a long time, but with this enormous vocation, the coaches end up giving them such good training that many discover that tennis can be the place they decide to go. Because of the natural ability that goes hand in hand with talent and the skill acquired through the dedication of coaches, boys and girls can dream of one day becoming professional tennis players.
The value of Argentine tennis lies in the enormous quality of its coaches and teachers in each of the stages of the players. Many times you only see the tennis players, but those who give them shine remain anonymous and many were the ones who put a racket in their hands for the first time and gave them the first instructions. They are the ones who get up every morning to try to transmit that passion and that love for tennis.
Paris France. Special for Clarion.
