Roger Federer, one of the best players in history, landed in Argentina later this year to play an exhibition in Tigre.
Roger Federer, one of the best players in history, landed in Argentina later this year to play an exhibition. In Miami, the Swiss yesterday signed the contract with Guillermo Marín, director of the company Image Sports, which will be in charge of this meeting, which will be held at playón Tigre station on 12 December next, as appropriated newspapers Buenos Aires. All that remains to be confirmed is the participation of Juan Martin del Potro, chosen by organizers as the opponent for former world No. 1 and currently 3rd in the ranking. Federer’s visit is part of a South American tour. The date Tigre is the first of a tour that will continue on December 14 when it faces in El Campin in Bogota, with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, whereas it is still unclear who will be your companion exhibition in the assigned two dates in Brazil, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro headquarters, Thomaz Bellucci and another former No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten, loom as potential adversaries. Chile also might add to this South American tour. Thus, the Swiss will add the name to the list of great figures of the racket that went through our country, as Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl. Worth remembering that Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi (and had been for the Davis Cup in 1988), two legends, also played an exhibition on 27 April last year, in Tigre.That meeting, which received major support from the municipality of Tigre, who leads Sergio Massa, served as the basis for the challenge he undertook Sports Image, with the idea of bringing Federer, who was in the pipeline for several months. The cachet of the Swiss would be about two million dollars