The fall of Sebastián Báez before the Serbian Laslo djere In the final of ATP 250 from Santiago He lowered his curtain to a South American groom of brick dust to which the celestial and white tennis took the juice again. Bonarense’s performance (which only lacked the golden brooch, because he stayed with the desire to defend the title) was not the only prominent in the Chilean capital, where they also reached the rooms Francisco closing it, Camilo Ugo Carabelliwho said goodbye in semis, Tomás Etcheverry y Federico Coria. And for the first time in 25 years there were five national representatives in that instance of an ATP tournament outside Argentina.
The good balance had already occurred in the first two appointments of the tour. In Buenos Airesthe eldest of the cerú reached the final, which lost with JOAO FONSECAnew jewel of the next gen. and in Janeiro RiverBáez was crowned two -time and Ugo Carabelli and Francisco Comesaña The semis played. Those results proved those who in recent weeks raised their voice to ask that the contests in the region be enhanced again.
In his passage through him Argentina Openfrom Diego Schwartzman until Alexander Zverevnumber two in the world, they were very critical of the ATP for having devalued the tour when removing a stop (250 of Córdoba He lost his license and was replaced by a Challenger in Rosario) and for having denied him at the end of 2023 the promotion to 500 to the Buenos Aires tournament.
“No one is asking for two months of the year in South America. But they maintain the weeks there. They have already taken one, Córdoba, without any need. They did not allow Buenos Aires to be a 500. Why? There are too many weeks in the year to always prioritize the economic or different sectors of the world,” said the Littlewho retired after passing through the Baltc, summarizing the opinion of many.
Just look what happened in this 2025 to understand that Golden Swing (Golden tour, as is known in the Tour) It is important for Argentine players – and also South American – who seek to recover sensations and trust, take envy for the rest of the year and even score some victories that serve as a trampoline to finish accommodating themselves in the elite.
Báez, 34th of the ranking, it came on a streak of irregular yields and few joys. When he jumped to the court to debut in the Buenos Aires tournament, he had not won at the ATP circuit six months, from the US Open last year. He had done it at the Rosario Challenger, the first week of February.
In Buenos Aires, he won Ugo Carabelli his first victory since August and then lost in the second round. But in Rio he played again at a high level and added the seventh trophy of his career and the second in a 500 category contest. And then extended his good walk in Santiago, where he gave the crown in a very hard game.
Francisco closing it26th and best Argentine ranked, played for the second time the final in Buenos Aires and although he stayed again without the title for the fall against Fonseca -in 2021 he had lost with Schwartzman-,, He took many positive things, including victory in rooms against Zverev. And with the Río and the Semis of Santiago, in addition, he recovered some positions in the ATP classification, in which he became Top 20 in mid -2023.
Those who took the most the three slow court tournaments were Ugo Carabelli and Comesaña, two members of the new generation that have been fighting for a long time in the circuit and who could now make a large leap, as happened last year with Navone.
After a pace failed by the Baltc, with defeats in First Round, Comesaña and Ugo Carabelli broke the barrier of the quarterfinals in the most important circuit for the first time. But they did not settle for that, they took another step and reached Semis.
After overcoming the local debut Gustavo Heideguest of the organization, the 24 -year – Nicolás Jarry47 of the ranking, and in the rooms he celebrated the best triumph of his career against Zverev, compared to the one raised a 1-4 disadvantage on the decisive set. In semis could not with Alexandre Müllerbut it took 200 points that allowed him to climb almost 20 steps in the ranking. In Santiago, Báez lowered him in the second round in a game of more than two and a half hours. But the same this Monday appeared 66th, its best location.
Interestingly, Comesaña had landed in the Carioca contest without victories in ATP tournaments. He had won four games in Grand Slams. Last year he reached third round in Wimbledon (His debut in a “great”, where he eliminated in his first game Andrey Rublevsixth of the world) and in the US Open.
Ugo Carabelli, who had never exceeded the second round of an ATP until this tour was scored two consecutive semi to pass from 91 to 61st place of the ranking in just two weeks. The 25 -year -old Buenos Aires almost runs out in Rio, because he had lost in the final round of the qualybut entered the main box as lucky loser Benefit for a last minute decline. In the main box, he beat Pedro Martínez (37°), Damir Dzumhur (97°) y Jaime Faria (107 °), before falling to Báez. And then he went to Santiago, where he fired Jarry (he reversed a 2-5 in the third set break), Tiago Monteiro (108 °) and Coria (136 °) and lost once again before Seba.
In his four weeks in the South American brick dust -also, also, who also continues that of the Rosario Challenger, prior to Buenos Aires, where he was crowned to get back into the Top 100 -, Camilo played 16 games with a record of twelve wins and four losses. And he was on the field 35 hours, 31 minutes and 28 seconds (24h14m37 if only three ATPs are taken into account).
Can Comesaña and Ugo Carabelli use these results as a springboard to take off their races definitely, as Navone did last season?
The one born on July 9 started 2024 in 125th place in the ranking. With a huge performance in Rio – it was from the qualy to the final – he jumped from 113 to 60 ° place and finished convincing what he had what to fight at the highest level. And what followed was pure growth. Juice Roland Garros (He made history when he was the first player to debut in a Grand Slam as preclassified), Wimbledon, the US Open and the Olympic Paris Games; reached the decisive instance in Bucharest; He spent a couple of weeks in the top 30 and managed to stay among the best to close the campaign in the 47th position.
Last year too Facundo Díaz Acosta He took advantage of the dust tour. He conquered his first ATP in Buenos Aires, a celebration that put him in the Top 60 and opened the doors of the most important competitions. But an injury in the shoulder blade, which appeared at its best, stopped its evolution quite a lot.
Far from great lights, the 2025 tour was also good for Juan Manuel Cerú y Burruchagathe two of 23 years.
The first, which in Córdoba 2021 had won his first title, exceeded the qualy of Buenos Aires and got into the main team of an ATP for the first time in almost a year (he arrived in the eighth and lost with his brother Francisco). And then the previous phases of Río and Santiago passed, playing good games, to climb from 139 to 129 ° place.
Burruchaga, meanwhile, the pleasure of playing the Argentina Open painting for the first time, after winning its two classification games. Champion at the end of January Challenger de Piracicabahe closed his passage through the South American brick dust in 136th place, five positions above the ones he had before the Buenos Aires appointment.
There were also actions with pleasure. Navone made rooms in Buenos Aires (he won Holger Rune12th of the world, in eighths) and second round in the other two competitions and lost ground: it went from 47 to 63. Díaz Acosta Hilvanó three losses in the first round and fell from 75 ° to 139 °. AND Tomás Etcheverrythird best Argentine of today, lost in the debut in the Baltc, in the second round in Rio and in the rooms in Santiago. But since he did not defend many points (last year Córdoba and Buenos Aires played, with two quarterfinals), only one place descended and is 45 °.
In the general balance, the same, the tour was very good for the Argentines, who by force of good results ratified again how important these tournaments for the region’s tennis.