The top seed captured the title in Buenos Aires earlier this month and has now won seven of his past eight matches on South American clay, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. Cerundolo\u2019s lone defeat came in the second round in Rio de Janeiro. The No. 19 player in the PIF ATP Rankings dominated against Nava, who was the first American to reach the quarter-finals at a tour-level event on South American clay since Rajeev Ram<\/a> in 2017 in Quito.<\/p>\n “I didn’t expect this,” Cerundolo said of his 66-minute win. “I have seen Emilio play really good tennis the past couple of days, so I started super concentrated on my game because I knew it was going to be a really tough match. But I thought I played really well. I rarely missed any shots today. I am really happy with my performance.”<\/p>\n Cerundolo has now earned 150 tour-level wins and is the first active Argentine to hit that mark. He will chase victory 151 when he meets Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> in his 18th ATP Tour semi-final.<\/p>\n “It is a lot. Not many players can achieve 150 wins, so I am super happy with that milestone,” Cerundolo said. “I will try to achieve more, set more records and try to keep winning.”<\/p>\n Hanfmann battled past Lithuanian lucky loser Vilius Gaubas<\/a> 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in two hours and 13 minutes to become the first German to advance to an ATP Tour semi-final on clay in South America since Tommy Haas<\/a> in Sao Paulo in 2014.<\/p>\n Cerundolo leads Hanfmann 4-1 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, having defeated him in the second round in Santiago last year.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Cerundolo claims 150th win in Santiago: \u2018Super happy with that milestone\u2019 Top seed Cerundolo won the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-504216","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\/504216","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=504216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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