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Challenger of Brasilia: Federio Coria beat Luciano Darderi

Federico Coria, from Rosario, the top seed for the title, defeated the Italian nationalized Argentine Luciano Darderi 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) in the opening round of the Brasilia Tennis Challenger, in Brazil, to advance to the second round of final of the contest in which his compatriots Francisco Cerúndolo, Pedro Cachín, Santiago Rodríguez Taverna and Nicolás Kicker also won.

Coria, located in 69th position in the ATP world ranking, debuted with a victory against Darderi (444 °), born 19 years ago in Villa Gesell, and based in Italy for five years, after an hour and 30 minutes of play.

Coria will play in the round of 16 against the Brazilian Wilson Leite (637 °), who eliminated the American naturalized Argentine Andrea Collarini (261 °) from the tournament.

For his part, the Buenos Aires Francisco Cerúndolo (115 °) forcefully defeated the Brazilian José Pereira (680 °) 6-2, 6-1, after just 57 minutes of confrontation.

Cerúndolo will confront in the second round against the winner of the duel between Genaro Alberto Olivieri (349 °) or Brazilian Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida (270 °).

The Cordovan Cachín (258 °) completed his match with the Brazilian Mateus Alves (497 °) that was interrupted on Monday by rain when he was in front 5-4 and 40-40 with the serve of his rival, and won 7-5 , 7-5, to be measured in the round of 16 against local tennis player Gilbert Klier Junior (416th).

The Buenos Aires Rodríguez Taverna (319 °) beat the Slovenian Tomás Lipovsek Puches (694 °) 6-1, 6-0, in just 47 minutes, and will confront in the round of 16 against the Spanish Jaume Munar (84 °), second favorite to title.

In turn, in a duel between fellow nationals Nicolás Kicker (236 °), a native of the Buenos Aires city of Merlo, beat Tomás Martín Etcheverry (129 °) 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, After three hours and a minute of meeting, and in the second round, Juan Pablo Ficovich (279th) awaits him, who beat Brazilian Orlando Luz (286th).

The other Argentine who made it through the initial round was Juan Ignacio Londero (144 °) from Cordoba, who beat the Swiss Johan Nikles (354 °) and will play his next match against a Brazilian: Felipe Meligeni Rodríguez Alves (180 °) or Pedro Sakamoto ( 334 °).

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