Román Burruchaga, a 23 -year -old Argentine tennis player, won the first victory of his career in the main team of a tournament in this category. He did it by beating the Italian Lorenzo Sonego 7-6 (5), 6-4, on the Pietrangeli track, and after having passed the previous phase with triumphs against rivals of weight, including the Spanish Pablo Carreño.
The victory confirms as an emerging star of Argentine tennis a boy who has grown up living together with the weight of his last name. Román is the son of Jorge Burruchaga, a decisive goal car in the 1986 world Cup final, which sealed 3-2 against Germany and guaranteed Argentina its second world title.
But the son did not choose football, but tennis. He put himself under Leonardo Mayer, another Argentine talent from the beginning of the century that came to win two ATP titles, both in Hamburg. Mayer polished his right and accompanied him at the hard beginnings for the Future and Challenger of South America and Europe. His career march in clear ascent. In 2023, Burruchaga conquered his first title in the Challenger circuit (Brasilia) and last year, after reaching another final (Zug, Switzerland) he managed to qualify for the final table of Roland Garros (defeat in First round against Jan Lennard Struff in three sets) after achieving his first win in the ATP in the Córdoba tournament against his compatriot Diego Schwartzman.
In 2025, more steps forward, with another Challenger title (Piracicaba) and the dispute of its first 1,000 masters in Madrid, with defeat in the previous one against Czech Kopriva.
All that learning seems to have hatched in Rome. His victory against Carreño was just an advance. In front of Sonego, local and backed by the stands, he played with poise, he knew how to close the first set of the first set and kept control in the second without granting his service (6-2 and 6-3).
His game in Rome left maturity sensation: firm service, solidity from the track bottom, selective aggressiveness and serenity in the key moments. Without stridency or gestures for the camera.
For him, and waiting for what he can do in the second round against Karen Khachanov (serial head number 23), it can be a turning point.
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