PUNTA DEL ESTE/STARNBERG, January 26, 2024
World No. 120 and fifth seed Thiago Monteiro advanced to the quarterfinals of the Punta del Este Open following a 6-2, 6-3 win over last week’s Buenos Aires Challenger AAT de TCA 2 champion Facundo Bagnis of Argentina on Thursday. The 29-year-old Brazilian aims to replicate his performance from the Uruguay Open, where he reached the final a few months ago. Monteiro’s next opponent will be the Argentine Roman Andres Burruchaga.
The Punta del Este Open, the largest ATP Challenger Tour tournament in the history of the city of Maldonado, Uruguay, is being held this week at clay courts of the Cantegril Country Club. The event offers a total prize money of $82,000.
Always time for the fans 🫶@juanmacerundolo is through to his first Challenger quarterfinal of the year after cruising past Sanchez Izquierdo 6-1, 6-3 in Punta del Este#ATPChallenger | @pdeopen pic.twitter.com/FfMDxYL15U
— ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) January 25, 2024
THURSDAY RESULTS
Singles – Second Round
Juan Cerúndolo (Argentina) d. Nikolás Sánchez Izquierdo (Spain) 61 63
Román Burruchaga (Argentina) d. Renzo Olivo (Argentina) 46 75 61
Gianluca Mager (Italy) d. Francisco Comesana (Argentina, 6) 76(8) 64
Thiago Monteiro (Brazil, 5) d. Facundo Bagnis (Argentina) 62 63
Doubles – Quarterfinal
Mariano Kestelboim/Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Argentina) d. Radu Albot/Alexandr Cozbinov (Moldova) 64 75
Murkel Dellien/Federico Gomez (Bolivia/Argentina, 4) d. Hernán Casanova/Santiago Rodríguez Taverna (Argentina) 63 (2)67 10 7
Jakob Schnaitter/Mark Wallner (Germany) d. Boris Arias/Federico Zeballos (Bolivia, 1) 63 62
Guido Andreozzi/Guillermo Duran (Argentina, 2) d. Luciano Darderi/Alessandro Giannessi (Italy) 64 62
