Buenos Aires
\n Home favourite Etcheverry makes fast start in Buenos Aires<\/p>\n
Martinez, Dellien, Kopriva also win on Day 1\n<\/p>\n
February 09, 2026<\/p>\n
Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Tomas Martin Etchverry is No. 54 in the PIF ATP Rankings (file photo).
\n By Vishakha Khandelwal<\/p>\n
Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> made a winning start on his return to the IEB+ Argentina Open on Monday. <\/p>\n The Argentine, competing in the main draw in Buenos Aires for the fifth consecutive time, earned a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italian qualifier Andrea Pellegrino<\/a>. <\/p>\n “It was an incredible match. Playing here in Buenos Aires in front of my people is super special,” he said. “I have a different energy when I play here and I’m super happy to get the first victory. I am looking forward for a long week here.<\/p>\n In his maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting against Pellegrino, Etcheverry produced a dominant serving display. He fired seven aces and won 85 per cent (29\/34) of his first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats, sailing to victory in one hour and 38 minutes. <\/p>\n The two-time quarter-finalist will next face Laslo Djere<\/a> or fellow Argentine Roman<\/a> Andres<\/a> Burruchaga.<\/p>\n In other action on the opening day of the tournament, 2025 semi-finalist Pedro Martinez<\/a> cruised past Argentine qualifier Lautaro Midon<\/a> 6-4, 6-1, earning his 50th tour-level clay-court win. The Spaniard saved 80 per cent (4\/5) of the break points he faced.<\/p>\n Watch Highlights from Martinez vs. Midon: <\/p>\n Hugo Dellien<\/a> set a second-round clash with top seed Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> after defeating Damir Dzumhur<\/a> 6-4, 6-1. The victory marked Dellien’s first tour-level win since defeating Thiago Seyboth Wild<\/a> at the Masters 1000 event in Rome last May.<\/p>\n In the final match of the day, Vit Kopriva<\/a> held his nerve to outlast Buenos Aires native Alex Barrena<\/a> 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, who was making his ATP Tour debut.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires Home favourite Etcheverry makes fast start in Buenos Aires Martinez, Dellien, Kopriva also win on Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}