Londero, Cachin Carry Argentine Hopes at Cordoba Open | ATP Tour

Argentines ruled another day at the inaugural Cordoba Open on Wednesday, winning five of the six matches contested. The only match players from the home country lost was a doubles match between four Argentines.

Wild card Juan Ignacio Londero kicked off the flag-flying day on Cancha Central, beating Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego 7-5, 6-3 to reach his first ATP Tour quarter-final. Londero, playing at a career-high No. 112 in the ATP Rankings, was 0-3 in tour-level matches before this week.

But he’s yet to lose his serve in Cordoba. He saved all five break points for the second consecutive match. View Match Stats

The 25-year-old will face countryman Pedro Cachin for a place in the semi-finals. The 23-year-old qualifier also advanced to his first quarter-final when fourth seed Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain retired up 7-6(3), 0-1. Cachin, like Londero, was winless at tour-level (0-2) before Cordoba.

In doubles, top seeds Maximo Gonzalez/Horacio Zeballos beat Guido Andreozzi/Leonardo Mayer 6-1, 6-1 in the all-Argentine clash. Fourth seeds Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and American Jamie Cerretani fell to Belgians Sander Gille/Joran Vliegen 7-5, 7-6(5).

Third seeds Roman Jebavy/Andres Molteni avoided an upset, overcoming Nicolas Jarry/Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 6-4. But second seeds Marcelo Demoliner/Frederik Nielsen were not as fortunate, falling to Argentine wild cards Facundo Bagnis/Guillermo Duran 6-3, 6-4.

On Thursday, the top three singles seeds – Fabio Fognini, Marco Cecchinato and Diego Schwartzman – are all scheduled to begin their quest for the ATP Tour 250 title.

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