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Etcheverry wins another derby to advance CF in Hamburg

His rival in the quarterfinals will be Leheckka, who beat him

May 21, 2025

Destiny has been capricious with Tomás Martín Etcheverry, who has had to be raffling compatriots on his way to the quarterfinals of Bitpanda Hamburg Open.

This Wednesday in the second round of the Hamburg ATP 500 found an old one known as Camilo Ugo Carabelli, which ended up defeating 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 54 minutes.

Etcheverry’s victory came only one day after he had to premiere on the German whipped land before another player in his country like Francisco Comesaña, also without leaving a set. Only Jiri Leheckka has prevented that in the quarterfinals had to measure another Argentine for the third consecutive time.

And it is that the Czech had starred shortly before one of the surprises of the day, when leaving out to the head of series No. 4 and second player with more victories this season (27) Francisco closing it 7-5, 6-2 in one hour and 40 minutes.

Leheckka, who is for the fourth time in his career in a quarterfinals in brick dust, became the first player of his country to get so far in Hamburg from Jiri Vesely in 2017. Of course, then the Czech yielded in front of the man who would end up raising the title: the Argentine Leonardo Mayer.

Be premonition or chance, the truth is that Etcheverry pursues in Hamburg the best result of the season, which so far equals the quarterfinals of Santiago. On the other side of the network he will collide with an opponent who has only faced himself once, but dominates the lexus ATP Head2head by 0-1.

Among the favorites of the tournament, the head of series No. 3 and champion in 2020 Andrey Rublev became strong before the local guest Justin Engel to take an important step to the quarterfinals 6-3, 7-5 in one hour and 42 minutes.

Despite the impudence of the 17-year-old German, who came to get 3-5 to close the second set, Rublev resorted to his greatest experience to link four consecutive games and move forward in Hamburg. Now the winner of the match between the favorite No. 7 Brandon Nakashima and the Italian Luciano Darderi awaits him.

Did you know what …?

Tomás Etcheverry is the last Argentine who remains in the Bitpanda Hamburg Open box, a tournament that since he went to ATP 500 category have won two players of this nationality: Leonardo Mayer (2014, 2017) and Juan Monaco (2012).