Franco Stupaczuk and Miguel Yanguas are out of the Italy Major. The world No. 6 and No. 7 fell in straight sets to Jeronimo Gonzalez and Lucas Campagnolo in the round of 16 — the heaviest casualty on a day when both top seeds strolled through untouched.
Jeronimo Gonzalez / Lucas Campagnolo 6-4 7-6 Franco Stupaczuk / Miguel Yanguas
The seeding pointed one way; the scoreboard went the other. Gonzalez (No. 14) and Campagnolo (No. 21) sat a combined 22 places below Stupaczuk (No. 6) and Yanguas (No. 7), and were never expected to trouble a pairing built to reach the last four.
They led throughout. Gonzalez and Campagnolo took the first set 6-4, then held their nerve in the second, edging a tiebreak 7-6 to close it out in straights. There was no decider to negotiate — and no route back for the seeds.
It is the result that reshapes the men's draw. Stupaczuk and Yanguas were among the few pairs equipped to test Coello and Tapia; their exit hands Gonzalez and Campagnolo a quarterfinal and blows the section wide open.
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 6-4 0-6 7-6 Carolina Orsi / Patricia Llaguno Zielinski
A match of extremes. Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo took the first set 6-4, were bageled 6-0 in the second, and then held themselves together to win a deciding tiebreak 7-6.
The middle set was a collapse — six games without reply — but the response mattered more. With Dal Pozzo carrying home support in Italy, the pair recovered their footing at the net and survived the tiebreak against the higher-ranked Orsi (No. 28) and Llaguno (No. 22).
Nuria Rodríguez / Giulia Dal Pozzo 3-6 6-3 6-2 Sofia Araujo / Claudia Fernandez Sanchez
Their second scalp of the day, and by some distance the bigger one. Sofía Araújo (No. 8) and Claudia Fernández (No. 6) were seeded deep into the tournament; Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo, ranked outside the top 40, sent them home in the quarterfinals.
The pattern repeated from the morning: a dropped opening set, then a surge. After losing the first 3-6, Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo reeled off 6-3, 6-2, tightening their court coverage as Araújo and Fernández faded. Two upsets in a single day carry them into the semifinals — the story of the tournament so far.
Arturo Coello / Agustin Tapia 6-1 6-1 David Gala Sánchez / Enzo Jensen Sirvent
No drama here. The world's top pair needed barely an hour, conceding just two games as they dismissed David Gala Sánchez and Enzo Jensen (No. 59) 6-1, 6-1. Coello and Tapia remain the clear men's favourites.
Gemma Triay / Delfina Brea 6-1 6-1 Patricia Martinez Fortun / Claudia Escacena Montero
The women's top seeds matched them for ruthlessness. Triay and Brea dropped only two games against Patricia Martínez Fortún and Claudia Escacena, a 6-1, 6-1 statement that keeps them on course and untroubled.
The women's semifinals now hinge on an unlikely home run: Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo, two seeds deep, against a draw shorn of its favourites. On the men's side, with Stupaczuk and Yanguas gone, Coello and Tapia look harder than ever to stop.