Three Argentine tennis players suffered defeats in the matches played on Wednesday during the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 in Santiago, Chile, which concludes the South American tour. According to the Argentine News Agency, the albiceleste players who fell were Camilo Ugo Carabelli (4), Francisco Comesaña (7), and Mariano Navone. The first of them lost to the German Yannick Hanfmann by 4-6 and 3-6, the Mar del Plata native to the Italian Andrea Pellegrino by 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2), and 3-6, while Navone was defeated by the Italo-Argentine Luciano Darderi (2) by 3-6, 6-3, and 4-6. With a complicated defeat for his privileged position in the ATP ranking, Camilo Ugo Carabelli could not defend the semifinals he reached last year and was surprised by Hanfmann, who needed only three breaks to take the victory on his fifth match point. Francisco Comesaña had a terrible South American tour; he had to defend 241 points but could only get 33 units in a difficult start to 2026 for him. Having fallen to a lower-ranked rival like Andrea Pellegrino, who is only noted for his physical condition and the power of his shots, Comesaña suffered breaks in all sets, four in total, and lost after almost three hours of play. In addition, the 'Shark' fell to the 82nd position in the live ranking, so he will have complications to play the main draw of the next Masters 1000 of Indian Wells and Miami, whose hard and fast courts would suit his game better than the South American clay. For his part, Navone could not cause an upset and was defeated by Darderi. Despite putting up a fight and even taking the second set, the man born in 9 de Julio could not overcome the mental strength and physical deployment of the Italian national team representative, who is at the best ranking of his career, in twenty-first place, and is having a good South American tour in which, although he fell in the first round of the ATP 500 in Rio, he played the final of the Argentina Open.
