The 32-year-old from Santiago and winner last Tuesday in the initial round of the Frenchman Jurgen Briand (496), will play his next match tomorrow in the quarterfinals against the German Louis Wessels (294), who eliminated the Lebanese Benjamín Hassan (293) after beating him 6-7 (3-7), 6-2 and 6-3.
The Toulouse Challenger is played on a clay surface and will award prizes of 45,730 euros.
The Argentine tennis players conquered this year 17 titles in the tournaments of the Challenger category, the one that follows in importance to the ATP.
The Cordovan Pedro Cachín became champion in the Challengers of Madrid, Prague, Todi, in Italy, and Santo Domingo, while Santiago Rodríguez Taverna was crowned in Tigre, in the province of Buenos Aires, and Francisco Cerúndolo in Santa Cruz de la Sierra , in Bolivia.
Tomás Martín Etcheverry hoisted the trophy in Concepción, in Chile; Facundo Bagnis in Pereira, Colombia; Camilo Ugo Carabelli in the second edition of the Tigre Challenger played at the Club Náutico Hacoaj and also in Lima, and Facundo Díaz Acosta consecrated himself in Coquimbo, Chile.
Rosario Federico Coria won the one in Milan, in Italy; Francisco Comesaña from Mar del Plata, from Corrientes and Buenos Aires, Facundo Mena from Cali, in Colombia; Juan Bautista Torres from Troyes, in France, and Juan Pablo Ficovich from Bogotá.
