Mariano Navone y Camilo Ugo Carabelli exceeds the prior en montecarlo | ATP Tour

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Navone and Ugo Carabelli exceed the previous one in Montecarlo

Gasquet premiered this Sunday the main box with Victoria

April 06, 2025

Argentina will have five representatives in the main box of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, which started this April 6.

To the squares reserved by Francisco Cerúando, Sebastián Baéz and Tomás Martín Etcheverry joined this Sunday the names of Mariano Navone and Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who exceeded the second round of the previous one and won the right to play the ATP Masters 1000 of Montecarlo for the first time.

Navone, located in No. 61 of the PIF ATP Rankings, said the Caminio de la Classification. The 24-year-old Argentine defeated Massy’s EA to Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 6-0, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in two hours and 32 minutes.

It will be the ninth ATP Masters 1000 tournament for Navone since the last year was released in the Mutua Madrid Open, that is, he already has a participation in the main cadre in all the events in this category.

The Argentine, who has a record of 2-8, will have a complicated premiere in the first round of Montecarlo against Matteo Berrettini. The winner of this duel will be the rival of the main favorite Alexander Zverev.

For its part, Ugo Carabelli had a more placid classification, at least in terms of what the score dictates, 7-5, 6-4; And the time he needed on track, an hour and 49 minutes, in front of Serbian Hamad Medjedovic.

No. 63 of the world exceeded the previous one of an ATP Masters 1000 per second time in his career and, after reaching third round in Miami (p. With Novak Djokovic), he will have the opportunity to play his first tournament of this level on beaten earth.

Ugo Carabelli, with a 2-1 balance in the ATP Masters 1000, will open its participation in the final Montecarlo Table Alexandre Muller, a rival in front of the one who maintains a Lexus ATP Head2head blank, although they have faced twice in 2022 at the ATP Challenger of Bois and the previous Wimbledon. In both clashes, the balance opted on the side of the Frenchman.

The rest of Argentines present at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters 2025 will have the following premiere: Báez will play in front of Tomas Machac, Etcheverry will be summoned with the French from the previous Corentin Moutet, while closing it will be measured with the guest and champion in 2019, Fabio Fognini.

However, the main box of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters opened this Sunday with a vibrant duel between the 38-year-old guest Richard Gasquet, who last plays the tournament, and the Italian Matteo Arnaldi. After two hours and 34 minutes, the Frenchman won a place in second round 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

“I know the luck I have to play on this track,” Gasquet said in the interview on the foot of the track. “Maybe it’s my last time. In the third set, I told myself: fight, fight, it may be the last time I play here. You have to be well on the track, you have to fight. And I did so.”

“I made great blows and, of course, I am happy to win here. I want to thank the organization for the invitation and this victory is incredible,” added the Frenchman, who announced that he will play his last tournament this year in Roland Garros.

In addition, this Sunday, local guest Valentin Vacherot became the first Monegasque player to sign a main victory since Jean-Rene Lisnard did in 2009.

Vacherot, 26, surprised Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2, 6-1 in 58 minutes. In the second round he will face Grigor Dimitrov or Nicolás Jarry.