World No. 9 and top-seeded Flavio Cobolli of Italy made an early exit from the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag after Roman Andres Burruchaga stunned him 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday in the second round in Croatia.
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The Argentine earned the first top-10 victory of his career by converting four of seven break points and winning 78.1% of his first-serve points. Cobolli was playing his first match since reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Burruchaga will next face countryman Camilo Ugo Carabelli, the seventh seed who rallied past Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.
Spain’s Daniel Merida delivered another upset by eliminating No. 3 seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Argentina 7-5, 6-4. Second-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain avoided a similar fate with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Argentina’s Marco Trungelliti, while No. 4 Matteo Arnaldi of Italy defeated Argentine qualifier Federico Agustin Gomez 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Nordea Open action saw former champion Nuno Borges sweep Bulgarian wild card Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals in Bastad, Sweden. The fifth-seeded Portuguese needed just 65 minutes to move on. Borges, whose only ATP Tour title came by defeating Rafael Nadal at Bastad in 2024, will next face defending champion Luciano Darderi of Italy.
In other tennis news, No. 4 seed Arthur Rinderknech of France saved two match points before outlasting qualifier Clement Tabur 6-7 (9), 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the second round at Gstaad, Switzerland.
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