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<\/p>\n Rio de Janeiro
\n Fonseca & Melo all smiles after Rio de Janeiro doubles win<\/p>\n
Tabilo among those to advance to last eight<\/p>\n
February 19, 2026<\/p>\n
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Rio Open presented by Claro<\/p>\n
Marcelo Melo and Joao Fonseca at the ATP 500 event in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Brazilians Joao Fonseca<\/a> and Marcelo Melo<\/a> treated their home crowd to a convincing victory 6-4, 6-0 victory against second seeds Maximo Gonzalez<\/a> and Andres<\/a> Molteni on Wednesday at the Rio Open presented by Claro<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nFonseca and Melo relied on a standout serving percentage, landing 82 per cent of their first serves and winning 84 per cent of those points, according to Infosys ATP Stats.<\/p>\n \nWild cards in the ATP 500 draw, Melo is 23 years Fonseca\u2019s senior. They will next face Germans Jakob Schnaitter<\/a> and Mark Wallner<\/a> or fellow Brazilians Gustavo Heide<\/a> and Luis Miguel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fonseca, seeded third in the singles draw, seeks a spot in the quarter-finals on Thursday against Peru’s Ignacio Buse<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nIn other action Wednesday, Alejandro Tabilo<\/a> advanced to the quarter-finals following a 4-6, 7-6(0), 6-2 win against lucky loser Francesco Passaro<\/a>. Tabilo, who reached the last eight in Buenos Aires last week, has advanced to a Tour-level quarter-final in consecutive weeks for the first time.<\/p>\n \nArgentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo<\/a> also earned a tight, three-set win to reach the biggest quarter-final of his career. The 24-year-old overcame Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> 6-4, 6-7(1), 6-4 after two hours and 49 minutes. At No. 68 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, Cerundolo is on pace for a new career high.<\/p>\n \nVit Kopriva<\/a> downed Roman Andres<\/a> Burruchaga 6-3, 6-1 and Thiago Agustin Tirante<\/a> advanced past Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> when the top seed retired at 6-2, 3-1<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro Fonseca & Melo all smiles after Rio de Janeiro doubles win Tabilo among those to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-484845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}