Argentine tennis player Renzo Olivo (512th), a former top 100 and Davis Cup champion with the Argentine team, has received an invitation to play in the main draw of the Rosario Challenger 125. According to the Argentine News Agency, the 33-year-old player is the second wildcard for the main draw, following Camilo Ugo Carabelli (49th), the defending champion. The Rosario Challenger will be the second tournament held in the country during the 2026 season, and the only 125-level tournament in Argentina. It will be played from Sunday, February 1st to the 8th, at the Jockey Club in the Santa Fe city. Being the only active Argentine Davis Cup champion, the experienced Renzo Olivo will have the opportunity to play in the main draw of the Rosario Challenger. The tennis player had participated in the quarterfinals of the historic Davis Cup achieved by the Argentine team in 2016, the first and only one to date, in the series against Poland. Playing his match on February 29th of that year, Olivo, who was then ranked 167th and reached the 78th position the following year, played the fifth match and lost 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 4-6 to 18-year-old Hubert Hurkacz, who would later reach the top 10 of the world ranking. Despite having a good year, Renzo Olivo was not called up to the Davis Cup team in subsequent stages. Little by little, the Argentine began to lose his place among the top 150 players in the world and had a 2018 with many defeats that made him fall to the top 500. Unable to return to the most coveted places in tennis, Olivo decided to put a pause on his career in the middle of last year, stating that since he was a child he fell in love with tennis 'but not with the life of a tennis player', tired of living abroad, constant travel, and loneliness. In any case, his departure from the courts was temporary: his return came at the Buenos Aires Challenger held at the Argentine Tennis Club during the week of January 12th, although pain did not allow him to continue in his first-round match. Born in Rosario, Olivo will have the great opportunity to play in front of his people, in his hometown, in the second most important tournament of the country in the season.
