Mariano Navone resists, takes the duel of friends against Comesaña and crosses with Rune in Buenos Aires | ATP Tour

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Navone resists and crosses Rune in Buenos Aires

The Argentine won two sets before his Comesaña compatriot

February 11, 2025

Mariano Navone is an ATP Tour worker. The Argentine, who broke up fully at the top of the circuit last season, wants to confirm that he has plenty Francisco Comesaña.

On a hot day in Buenos Aires, with temperatures that exceeded 40º degrees, Navone closed the day putting on the court a first -class repertoire on the brick dust of Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis, with a friend who knows him more than fifteen years and without secrets between them on the court.

In fact, Navone and Comesaña are known since before the age of 12, they have traveled the way together since that time and have supported each other, and even enhanced each other. One of July 9, another from Mar del Plata, competed on the court, but shared a lot, above all, outside it, heating an endearing friendship.

The game was quiet until 6-4, 3-1, when it navone some physical discomfort and some cramps to add some more drama to the closure. On the eleventh occasion in professionalism, but first time at the ATP Tour level, the triumph went to Navone, who, with trade, managed to reach the final line and thus cut the history at 6-5 at all levels. “I don’t know how many players have they faced in Futures, in Challengers and at ATP. He would be missing in a Grand Slam,” he said, with a laugh, a gun before the game.

“The important thing is that I could continue despite the cramps and for that I am. I feel playing well and it was an important game for me,” said the winner. Now, Navone’s next rival in the second round will be the Norwegian Holger Rune, second preclassified from the tournament, who leads the lexus ATP Head2head 1-0, after a disputed duel in Madrid with Victoria for the European by 5-7, 7- 6 (2) and 6-4 in a match in which Navone got to take advantage of in the second manga.

“It was a very hard match, I don’t know how I did to get that game but I did, the Argentines are always ready for this tournament and brick dust is the best surface for them,” recalled the Danish.

“I’m going to match, I prepared eagerly and I want to go calm. Today I am another player to that game with Rune and I am a preparer to battle any and sure will be a great battle with Holger,” said Navone.

Meanwhile, earlier, Thiago Seyboth Wild hit the day to overcome the last champion, Facundo Díaz Acosta. The Brazilian won 3-6, 6-2 and 6-3 and in the second round he will play with another Argentine, Sebastián Báez or Camilo Ugo Carabelli.

In addition, Serbio Dusan Lajovic won the Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena 7-6 (8) and 7-5 and was classified for the second round where he will face the first sown, Alexander Zverev, No. 2 of the Pif ATP Ranking world and last finalist of the Australian Open.