Brazilian Thiago Monteiro snuck in an upset before rain suspended play on Tuesday at the Ecuador Open in Quito.
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The 23-year-old knocked off fifth seed Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-4, 7-6(8), saving the only break point he faced in the one-hour and 39-minute match. Monteiro will next face either Italian lucky loser Alessandro Giannessi or Peter Polansky of Canada.
Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena beat Italy's Federico Gaio 7-6(5), 6-3 in the only other completed match of the day. Wednesday's play kicks off with seventh seed Ivo Karlovic facing Ernesto Escobedo of the U.S.A.
Tennis players are always at the center of the ATP World Tour’s world. But this week at the Ecuador Open in Quito, the country’s capital, the competitors paid a visit to the actual center of the Earth at the equator. Gael Monfils, his doubles partner Dorian Descloix, No. 1 Chilean Nicolas Jarry and home favourite Roberto Quiroz — the No. 1 player from Ecuador — played mini tennis on the equator during a visit to the Mitad del Mundo on Monday, where government officials presented the quartet with sombreros de paja toquilla — Ecuadorian hats. [ALSO LIKE] All of the players attempted to do something that cannot be done except on the equator: balancing an egg on a nail. Only...
Thomaz Bellucci attempted to beat Victor Estrella Burgos at the Ecuador Open in each of its first three editions (2015 SF, 2016 F, 2017 SF), but the Brazilian failed each time. Estrella Burgos would go on to win the Quito trophy all three years. But after winning the first set against the Dominican on Monday evening and losing just three points through his first four service games in the second set, would the fourth time be the charm for Bellucci? Not so fast. The three-time defending champion Estrella Burgos battled back to beat the Brazilian for the fourth time in Quito in four years 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in one hour, 55 minutes to deny Bellucci his 200th tour-level victory. It...
Gael Monfils and fellow ATP World Tour players Dorian Descloix, Roberto Quiroz and Nicolas Jarry play mini tennis and attempt to balance an egg on a nail on a visit to Mitad del Mundo in Quito. Video courtesy ATP 250 Ecuador Open.
