Facundo Bagnis from Santa Fe defeated Juan Bautista Torres from Buenos Aires on Wednesday 6-1 and 6-4 in the round of 16 of the Buenos Aires Challenger, on a clay surface and with prizes of $53,120, in a day at the that five other Argentine tennis players will play.
Bagnis, ranked 112th in the ATP world ranking, opened the day of the tournament with a victory against Torres (238) at Racquet, the club located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
In the quarterfinals, the 32-year-old from Santa Fe will meet on Friday with the winner of the match that his compatriots Hernán Casanova (236) and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (178) will also cheer on this Wednesday.
In another cross between Argentine tennis players, Camilo Ugo Carabelli (118) beat Juan Bautista Otegui 6-2, 0-6 and 6-4 (447).
Now Ugo Carabelli will meet Rosario Renzo Olivo (169) or German Yannick Hanfmann (161) in the quarterfinals, who will close the day at 18.
Olivo beat Nicolás Kicker (183) on Tuesday night in the last match of the day 6-3, 5-7 and 6-4 in a surprising result because the loser had been champion last Sunday of the Challenger played in Villa Maria, Cordoba.
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The remaining match scheduled at the Racquet for no earlier than 2:00 p.m. will be the one completed by the Indian Sumit Nagal (484) and the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (374) that was left unfinished due to lack of natural light with the score tied with a set for each. one 7-5 and 6-7 (4-7).
From this cross will emerge the rival of the Italian nationalized Gesellino Luciano Darderi (192), who generated the great surprise of the tournament with his victory over the top favorite for the title, Federico Coria (70) by 6-2 and 7-6 (7-4 ).
Argentine tennis players won 18 tournaments in the Challenger category this year, which is next in importance to the ATP, and they are leaders followed by players from France (17), Italy (12), Great Britain (8) and Spain (8). ).
