Rosario’s Federico Coria, top favorite for the title, yesterday beat the native of 9 de Julio Mariano Navone 5-7, 6-2 and 6-1 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Coquimbo Tennis Challenger in Chile after 2 hours and minutes of gameplay.
Rosario will face Kazakh Timofey Skatov (158) in the quarterfinals, who defeated Nicolás Kicker from Buenos Aires (202) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, after 2 hours and 49 minutes of contest.
For his part, Etcheverry (87) from La Plata, second seeded in the tournament, beat the Spanish José Vidal Azorín (513) 6-3, 6-1, after 1 hour and 26 minutes of confrontation. In the quarterfinals, Etcheverry will play against Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (156) from Buenos Aires, who needed 1 hour and 32 minutes to beat Chilean Matías Soto (554) 6-1, 6-4.
Three other Argentines will play today the round of 16. They will be: Andrea Collarini, Facundo Díaz Acosta and Camilo Ugo Carabelli. Collarini (229) will face the Indian Sumit Nagal (565) and, if he passes him, he will meet Franco Agamenone (162) or the Swiss Jakub Paul (501) on Friday, who will also play today.
While Díaz Acosta (228) and Ugo Carabelli (126) will face each other and the winner will play in the quarterfinals against the Swiss Remy Bertola (363) or the Italian Marco Cecchinato (98).
He got into the round of 16
The Argentine tennis player Sebastián Báez left behind an adverse series of more than three months without wins and settled in the round of 16 of the ATP 250 in Naples by winning yesterday against the Italian Lorenzo Sonego 7-5 and 7-6 (7-3 ).
Baez will play in the round of 16 against the winner of the match between the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (91) and the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (109).
