Overview
- Italian No. 2 seed Luciano Darderi beat Chile’s Tomas Barrios 6-1, 6-3, firing six aces and winning 95% of first‑serve points in 1 hour 22 minutes on the Buenos Aires clay.
- Darderi is slated to face Spain’s Pedro Martínez in the quarterfinals after Martínez defeated Juan Cerúndolo 7-6 (5), 6-4.
- Other round-of-16 results included Sebastián Báez over Ignacio Buse 6-4, 6-3 and Camilo Ugo Carabelli over Mariano Navone 6-2, 7-5.
- A semifinals preview piece presented projected matchups of Francisco Cerúndolo vs Tomás Martín Etcheverry and Báez vs Darderi, noting Báez leads Darderi 4-3 in their head-to-head; these were predictions rather than confirmed scheduling.
- A separate preview projected a Cerúndolo–Darderi championship match and picked Cerúndolo in three sets, citing their 2-2 head-to-head as context for a close contest.