Day three of the Estoril Open tennis will feature 13 matches, including the opening rounds of singles and doubles, after the second round on Tuesday was postponed due to rain.
João Sousa’s debut in what will be the final tournament of Portugal’s all-time leading tennis player was one of the postponements on Tuesday: Vimaranense, currently ranked 272nd in the world, will face young Frenchman Arthur Fils, ranked 37th. -th place. in the hierarchy.
The meeting of Joao Sousa will be the third on the main stage, the program of which will open with a confrontation between 17-year-old Brazilian Joao Fonseca, ranked 288th in the ranking, who received an invitation from the organization, and British qualifier Jan Choinski (188th place), with Austrian Yuri Rodionov and Chilean Cristian Garin then closed out the match, which began on Monday.
Portuguese Henrique Rocha, who entered the top 200 this week (ranked 197th), will be on the Estoril Open main table for the second time, meeting experienced Frenchman Gael Monfils, ranked 45th, in the fourth and penultimate meeting of the day at the Central court, which will conclude with a meeting between Argentine Federico Coria and Dutchman Boteach van de Zandschulp, who began play on Tuesday.
Qualifier Jaime Faria, 262nd in the ranking, will play in the second match on the Cascais court against the Spaniard David Jord Sanchis, 329th, who was added at the last minute to replace the Frenchman Constant Lestienne, 90th, injured in his left knee.
The second most important court of the Estoril Tennis Club will host two doubles matches with the Portuguese, the first between Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral, who won the tournament in 2022, facing the French Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul, the second most goals in the series. .
After playing in singles, Joao Sousa and Joao Fonseca come together to play in pairs against Brazil’s Marcelo Demoliner and Dutchman Sem Verbeek.