The men's seeds did not all survive the round of 16 in Italy. Franco Stupaczuk and Miguel Yanguas, ranked 6 and 7, were knocked out 6-4, 7-6 by Jerónimo González and Lucas Campagnolo — the first real fracture in the top half of the draw. The women's bracket produced its own surprise, with a wildcard-flavoured Italian-led pairing reaching the semi-finals.
Jerónimo González / Lucas Campagnolo 6-4 7-6 Franco Stupaczuk / Miguel Yanguas
The ranking gap framed the result: González (14) and Campagnolo (21) beating a pairing seeded inside the top seven. And they did it in straight sets.
A single break settled the opener 6-4. The second was the contest: neither side could force the decisive break, and it went the distance to a tiebreak. González and Campagnolo held their nerve to take it 7-6, closing the match before it could turn into a third set. Campagnolo's work from the revés side kept Yanguas from controlling the net, and Stupaczuk never found the rhythm on his bandeja that usually anchors this team.
This is a meaningful draw event. Stupaczuk and Yanguas were expected to reach the quarters at minimum, and their exit opens a clear lane for the seeds below them. González and Campagnolo, a pairing still building ranking points together, advance with their biggest scalp of the season.
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 6-4 0-6 7-6 Carolina Orsi / Patricia Llaguno
Few three-setters swing this violently. Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo took the first 6-4, were then bageled 0-6 in the second, and somehow steadied to win a deciding-set tiebreak 7-6.
The middle set was a complete collapse — Orsi and Llaguno cut off the glass exits and ran the rallies on their terms. But the third reset everything. Dal Pozzo, playing in front of a home crowd, held her side together through the tiebreak, and the pair came through a match they had no business still being in after the second set.
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 3-6 6-2 Sofia Araujo / Claudia Fernández
Then they backed it up. The ranking differential here was stark: Araujo (8) and Fernández (6), a genuine seeded pairing, beaten in three by a team led by the No. 50. The score was 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo lost the first set but grew into the match as it went, taking control of the net and forcing errors off the back glass in the closing stretch. The 6-2 third set was the cleanest passage of their day. After surviving the bagel scare in the R16, this was the more convincing performance — and it carries them into the semi-finals.
It is the standout women's run of the tournament so far, and Dal Pozzo's home support will only grow from here.
Arturo Coello / Agustín Tapia 6-1 6-1 David Gala / Enzo Jensen
The No. 1 seeds did exactly what No. 1 seeds should. Coello and Tapia conceded just two games across the match, breaking early and often and never letting Gala and Jensen settle. A routine, ruthless 6-1, 6-1 — the kind of statement scoreline that tells the rest of the men's draw nothing has changed at the top.
Gemma Triay / Delfina Brea 6-1 6-1 Patricia Martínez Fortún / Claudia Escacena
The women's top seeds matched it. Triay and Brea ran out 6-1, 6-1, controlling the tempo from the first game and giving Martínez Fortún and Escacena no foothold. Two games dropped, no real scare — a clinical advance into the quarter-finals.
With the bottom seeds untroubled, the early upsets sit just below them in the bracket.
Tomorrow's quarter-finals will measure whether González and Campagnolo can sustain their level against fresher opposition, while Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo carry the day's best story into the women's semi-finals. At the top, Coello-Tapia and Triay-Brea look exactly as they should this deep in a Major.