Ignacio Buse Reaches Historic Rio Open Semifinal for Peru
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Peruvian tennis player Ignacio Buse advanced to his first ATP 500 semifinal at the Rio Open after defeating former world top 10 Matteo Berrettini 6/3, 2/6, 6/3 on the Quadra Guga Kuerten, becoming the first player from Peru to reach this stage since the ATP 500 category was created in 2009.
Buse, 21 years old and ranked No. 91, had eliminated local favorite João Fonseca in the previous round and will face Chilean Alejandro Tabilo in the singles semifinals, while the other place in the final will be decided between Argentina’s Tomas Etcheverry and Czech player Vit Kopriva.
The schedule on the Quadra Guga Kuerten begins with the doubles semifinal featuring Brazilians João Fonseca and Marcelo Melo against Germans Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner, a match moved from Friday on Court 1 to Saturday for better crowd accommodation at the Jockey Club Brasileiro, where gates open at 13:30.
Etcheverry, the only remaining seed in the singles draw, has reached 100 career tour‑level wins and is set to return to the top 50, while Kopriva is contesting his second ATP semifinal, nearly three years after his breakthrough run in Gstaad in 2021.
On the sidelines of the main draw, the Wheelchair Tennis Elite presented by Allos crowned Spain’s Martín de la Puente, who edged world No. 1 Tokito Oda of Japan 7/6(4), 6/7(2), 10/7 in a deciding match tie‑break, while former Brazilian Davis Cup captain Paulo da Silva Costa, Ingrid Metzner and Ronald Barnes were formally inducted into the Brazilian Tennis Hall of Fame during a ceremony held on the Quadra Guga Kuerten.