Román Andrés Burruchaga and Carlos Taberner access the main box of Rome | ATP Tour

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Burruchaga and Taberner access the Main Table of Rome

Both will play the ATP Masters 1000 Italian for the first time

May 06, 2025

Roman Andres Burruchaga will play the main picture of an ATP Masters 1000 tournament for the first time in his career in the internali bnl d’Italia.

The Argentine, classified as No. 135 of the PIF ATP Rankings, surprised on Tuesday at the Italic Forum in Rome to the eighth head of the series in the previous phase Pablo Carreño Busta 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and 20 minutes.

The player born in Buenos Aires 23 years ago had the opportunity to play a ‘qualy’ match in a tournament in this category for the first time two weeks ago in the Mutua Madrid Open, but in the Italian capital two victories has linked to Daniel Galán and Carreño himself who have awarded him the prize of playing a tournament of this level.

Burruchaga is one of the five Argentines who left in the painting of the previous one in Rome, along with Juan Pablo Ficovich, Thiago Agustin Tirante, Federico Agustin Gomez and Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

The youngest of the brothers chering it could not take a place among the best in the fifth ATP Masters 1000 of the season. The Argentine yielded to Chun-Hsin Tseng 6-1, 6-4.

For his part, Carlos Taberner also made his way in the main box of the ATP Masters 1000 of Rome on Tuesday, after the withdrawal of Jaime Faria when the Spanish won 6-0 in the 29 minutes that until then marked the clock.

Taberner, which currently occupies position No. 139 of the world, will play for the third time a tournament of this category, where you contemplate a 1-2 record. His only victory arrived at Indian Wells 2021 against his compatriot Jaume Munar, while in Mutua Madrid Open 2021 he managed to spend the previous one, although he gave in his premiere to Fabio Fognini.

The 27-year-old Valencian will look for one more victory in Rome, after having won three of the four sets he has played with a 6-0 or 6-1 score. And it is that Mannarino, in the first round, managed to defeat him 6-1, 0-6, 6-0.

In addition, other names such as Sebastian Ofner, Alexander Shevchenko or Thiago Seyboth Wild have managed to enter the main box. The Austrian defeated Hanfmann 7-6 (1), 6-2; The Kazakh to Marton Fucsoovics 6-4, 6-2; And the Brazilian could with Jesper de Jong 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Finally, Chilean Tomás Barrios Vera found a ticket in the main box of Rome, after bending the Frenchman Valentin Royer 7-5, 5-7, 7-5.