Francisco Cabral and Pedro Araújo stamped, on the journey this Thursday, March 11, the qualification for the quarter finals of the Vale do Lobo Open II Magnesium-K Active. Hours later, side by side, the two Portuguese went, as did Gonçalo Falcão. far apart in the variant of pairs, which was left without representatives “from the house”.
Invited by the organization to the main board, the 24-year-old Porto player (1114th ATP) was stronger than compatriot Gonçalo Falcão, 33 years old and number 1343 in the world, and won 6-1 and 6-4 after 1:25 am meeting.
With this triumph, Francisco Cabral qualified for the eighth time to the singles quarter-finals of an ITF tournament — and for the first time in events with $25.000 in prize money. On Friday, the opponent will be Tak Khunn Wang (624th), who beat the seventh seed, Antoine Escoffier, 7-6(2) and 6-4.
A little earlier, Pedro Araújo was the first to reserve a place in the quarter-finals of Vale do Lobo Open II Magnesium-K Active. Two weeks after having reached, on this same stage, the first "quarters" in international tournaments, the 18-year-old from Lisbon recorded one of the best victories of his career, applying the 6-3 and 6-2 partials to French Lucas Poullain ( number 501 in the world that on the eve sent away Gastão Elias and last Sunday played the final of the 30th Faro Open) to match that provision.
On Friday, the national under-18 champion will face Sebastian Fanselow (435th), a German tennis player who lives and trains in Lisbon.
In the last hours of the day, the pairs' matches dictated the removal of the three Portuguese who were still in the competition: alongside Turkish Tuna Altuna, Gonçalo Falcão was unable to confirm the status of first seed and lost 6-3, 2- 6 and 10-6 for Spaniards Jordi Mas de Ugarte and Jose Joaquin Miranda Cisneros.
Francisco Cabral and Pedro Araújo also gave way in the tie-break match, losing by 6-7(10), 6-4 and 10-7 to French Alexis Musialek and Hugo Pontico.
The Vale do Lobo Open II Magnesium-K Active takes place until this Sunday, March 14, at the high-speed courts of Vale do Lobo Tennis Academy, in Loulé, and closes a series of three consecutive weeks of tennis at the highest level in the South from the country.
Alignment of quarter-finals of singulars:
[1] Kaichi Uchiva vs. [Q] Louis Dussin
Maximilian Neuchrist vs. Kenny Schepper
Sebastian Fanselow vs. [WC] Pedro Araujo
Tak Khunn Wang vs. [WC] Francisco Cabral
Alignment of the pairs semi-finals:
Jordi Mas de Ugarte/Jose Joaquin Miranda Cisneros vs. Antoine Escoffier/Hugo Voljacques
Alexis Musialek and Hugo Pontico vs. Kenny from Schepper and Quentin Robert
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