Overview
- Five Argentines moved into the second round of Australian Open qualifying: Julia Riera, Jazmín Ortenzi, Marco Trungelliti, Román Burruchaga and Lourdes Carlé.
- Román Burruchaga beat Ryan Peniston 6-1, 6-1 and faces France’s Arthur Gea next, while Lourdes Carlé defeated Polina Iatcenko 6-3, 6-3 to set up a meeting with China’s Yue Yuan.
- Juan Pablo Ficovich and Luisina Giovannini lost their opening qualifying matches, following earlier exits by Genaro Olivieri, Alex Barrena and Facundo Díaz Acosta.
- At Auckland’s ATP 250, Tomás Etcheverry, Camilo Ugo Carabelli and Mariano Navone fell in the first round, leaving Sebastián Báez and Francisco Comesaña as the remaining Argentines there.
- The Argentina Open entry list features six local players—Francisco Cerúndolo, Sebastián Báez, Camilo Ugo Carabelli, Tomás Etcheverry, Francisco Comesaña and Mariano Navone—headlined by world No. 5 Lorenzo Musetti, as the ATP’s first 2026 rankings place Báez at No. 38 and Cerúndolo at No. 20.