Rosario Coria, located in the 60th position in the world ranking, achieved a good victory over Davidovich Fokina (43), with parts of 7-5, 3-6 and 6-4after two hours and 18 minutes of play on Moroccan brick dust.
Meanwhile, Azuleño Delbonis (35), champion in the 2016 edition of this trophy also known as the Grand Prix Hassan II, was sidelined, losing the inaugural match against Portuguese Joao Sousa (90), who finally won with segments of 6-2, 5-7 and 6-3.
In this way, the tennis player from the city of Guimaraes equaled the statistics (4-4), which he maintains with his Buenos Aires pair, who had prevailed in the previous duel at the Australian Open 2020.
The top favourite, the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime (9), had no major complications to settle in the second round, beating local Elliot Benchetrit (436), 6-3, 6-3.
In addition to Azuleño Delbonis, four other Argentine players celebrated titles in Marrakech: Franco Davín, born in Pehuajó, became champion in 1988; Guillermo Pérez Roldán from Tandil won it in 1992 and 1993; Guillermo Cañas from Buenos Aires won in 2001 and Mariano Puerta from Cordoba won in 2005.
Source: Ambito
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