Argentina s Pella progresses to Brasil Open round-of-16

Sao Paulo (Brazil) Feb 28 (IANS) Sixth seed Guido Pella of Argentina recovered from a set down to defeat Frenchman Corentin Moutet at the Brasil Open.

Pella took the match 4-6 6-1 6-2 in one hour and 51 minutes to advance to the round-of-16 of the ATP 250 clay-court event on Tuesday reports Xinhua news agency.

In the next round the 27-year-old will face Chile s Nicolas Jarry who overcame Serbia s Dusan Lajovic 6-4 1-6 7-5.

The upset of the day was the straight-set victory of local veteran Rogerio Dutra Silva over American seventh seed Tennys Sandgren.

The 34-year-old who is currently ranked 106th in the world needed just an hour and 11 minutes to breeze past Sandgren 6-0 6-4.

Thursday s schedule includes a clash between Italian second seed Fabio Fognini and Portuguese qualifier Joao Domingues while third seed Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay will face Austrian Sebastian Ofner.

--IANS
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