The Italy Major lost one of its title contenders before the quarterfinals. Franco Stupaczuk and Miguel Yanguas, seeded on the strength of their No.6 and No.7 rankings, went out in the last 16 to Jerónimo González and Lucas Campagnolo. The scoreline read straight sets, but the second was settled on a tiebreak — and the story of the day did not end there, with a low-seeded Italian-led pair carving out a run to the women's semifinals.
Jerónimo González / Lucas Campagnolo 6-4 7-6 Franco Stupaczuk / Miguel Yanguas
González sits at No.14 and Campagnolo at No.21; their opponents are ranked 6 and 7. On paper this was a comfortable seeded win. In practice, González and Campagnolo controlled the terms of the match from the drive side and never handed the initiative back.
They took the opener 6-4 by attacking Yanguas's bandeja and forcing the rally one shot longer than Stupaczuk wanted. The second set tightened into a tiebreak, where the underdogs held their nerve to close it 7-6 rather than let a decider level the contest. Stupaczuk's power off the glass came and went; the consistency was with the winners.
The result reshapes this quarter of the draw. A pairing many had pencilled in for the semifinals is gone, and González and Campagnolo advance as the section's live threat rather than its passengers.
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 6-4 0-6 7-6 Carolina Orsi / Patricia Llaguno
Dal Pozzo, ranked 50, and Rodríguez began their day with one of its wilder scorelines. They took the first set 6-4, were then handed a bagel — a 6-0 second set in which Orsi and Llaguno gave up nothing — and still found a way through.
The decider went to a tiebreak. After being swept off the court for an entire set, Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo steadied on serve and edged the third 7-6 to survive. It was a result built on refusing to let the middle set carry into the last one.
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 3-6 6-3 6-2 Sofia Araujo / Claudia Fernández
Claudia Fernández is ranked 6 and Sofia Araujo 8; Dal Pozzo is 50. Having already come through a three-set last-16 tie earlier in the day, Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo backed it up with the bigger scalp — beating a top-eight seeded pair to reach the semifinals.
They lost the first set 3-6, then flipped the match. Dal Pozzo's reading of the vibora and a sharper spell at the net turned the second set 6-3, and the momentum ran straight through the third, which they took 6-2 as the seeds' error count climbed. For the Italian, it is a home semifinal from well outside the seedings — the standout run of the day.
Arturo Coello / Agustín Tapia 6-1 6-1 David Gala / Enzo Jensen
The No.1 men's pair did what No.1 pairs do to a qualifier. Coello and Tapia dropped just two games against David Gala and Enzo Jensen (No.59), moving into the quarterfinals without needing to leave second gear.
Gemma Triay / Delfina Brea 6-1 6-1 Patricia Martínez / Claudia Escacena
The top women's seeds matched the men's benchmark for efficiency. Triay and Brea conceded a single game per set against Patricia Martínez and Claudia Escacena (Nos.57 and 76), a routine 6-1, 6-1 passage into the last eight.
With the favourites through untroubled and Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo already into the semifinals, the women's draw now pits its most established pairing against its most unlikely. On the men's side, Stupaczuk and Yanguas's exit leaves the quarters more open than the seeding suggested. Play resumes tomorrow with the semifinal picture beginning to firm up.