Tomas Martin Etcheverry moved into the Rio de Janeiro semifinals with a 7-6 (4), 6-4 win over Jaime Faria, a victory that also marked the 100th tour-level win of his career.

At No. 51, the former Roland Garros quarterfinalist is the highest-ranked player and the only seed remaining in the ATP 500 draw. With his results this week, Etcheverry will jump past Sebastian Baez to become the new Argentinian No. 2 when the new ATP rankings are released on Monday, after Cerundolo. He is the sixth Argentinian man born in 1990 or later to reach 100 tour-level wins and just the second Argentine born in 1999 or later to do so, after Sebastian Baez.

Faria, a lucky loser who reached the Rio quarterfinals for a second straight year, threatened early. He held five break points in the opening set—one with Etcheverry serving at 2-all, two at 3-all and two at 4-all—but failed to convert. Etcheverry escaped a 71-minute first set in a tie-break and then carried the momentum into the second set.

Both players held serve through the first eight games of set two with no break points. Etcheverry produced the match’s first break for 5-4, then served out the contest, finishing the point with a crosscourt forehand that Faria hit into the net. The match statistics reflected the turning moments: Etcheverry was 1/2 on break points while Faria was 0/5.

Etcheverry is now two wins from his first ATP title. He has reached three ATP finals, all on clay, finishing runner-up twice in 2023 at Santiago and Houston and once in 2024 at Lyon, losing those finals to Nicolas Jarry, Frances Tiafoe and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard respectively.

Awaiting Etcheverry in the semifinals is Vit Kopriva, who earlier defeated Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-4, 6-4. While Etcheverry is the only seed left in Rio, the bottom half of the draw still features notable names, including former Top 10 player Matteo Berrettini, a former No. 6 now ranked No. 57, who played his quarterfinal later in the day against Ignacio Buse.

Tomas Martin Etcheverry continued his run in Rio de Janeiro with a straight-sets victory over Jaime Faria, 7-6 (4), 6-4, to reach the semifinals and register the 100th tour-level win of his career.

The No. 51-ranked Argentine is the highest-ranked player and the only seed remaining in the ATP 500 draw. With his result this week, Etcheverry will also move past Sebastian Baez to become the new Argentinian No. 2 when the new ATP rankings are released on Monday, after Cerundolo.

Faria, a lucky loser who reached the quarterfinals in Rio for the second straight year, threatened early. He held five break points in the first set—one at 2-all, two at 3-all and two at 4-all—but did not convert. Etcheverry escaped a 71-minute opening set in a tie-break and then closed out the second set by breaking for 5-4 and serving out the match, finishing with a decisive crosscourt forehand that Faria put into the net.

The break-point numbers underlined the match: Etcheverry was 1/2 on break points while Faria was 0/5.

Etcheverry is now two wins away from claiming his first ATP title. He has previously reached three ATP finals, all on clay, and finished runner-up at Santiago and Houston in 2023 and at Lyon in 2024. His three final defeats came to Nicolas Jarry, Frances Tiafoe and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard respectively.

Waiting for Etcheverry in the semifinals will be Vit Kopriva, who earlier beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-4, 6-4 to advance. While Etcheverry is the only seed left in Rio, the bottom half of the draw still contains notable names, including former Top 10 player Matteo Berrettini, a former No. 6 now ranked No. 57, who was scheduled to play Ignacio Buse in the other quarterfinal later in the day.

Etcheverry’s milestone places him among Argentine men born in 1990 or later to reach 100 tour-level wins and makes him the second Argentine born in 1999 or later to hit that mark, after Sebastian Baez.

Arthur Fils has added former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic to his coaching group on a trial basis as he pushes through a comeback from a long-term back problem. The move, announced during the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, pairs the Frenchman with a coach whose playing and coaching record Fils has praised and described as a “hell of a champion”.

Fils, a former world No. 14, missed seven months after Roland Garros last season because of an aggravated back issue he has carried since his youth. He returned to competition earlier this month in Montpellier and reached the quarterfinals, then improved on that showing in Doha with a victory over No. 8 seed Jiri Lehecka.

With the upset of Lehecka, Fils has advanced to the semifinals, where he will meet No. 6 seed Jakub Mensik. A win would put him into his first final since he lifted the trophy in Tokyo in October of 2024. Mensik reached the last four after upsetting world No. 2 Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals.

Ivanisevic arrives at Fils’s camp after a year that saw short coaching stints with two high-profile players. After ending a six-year partnership with Novak Djokovic, Ivanisevic worked with Elena Rybakina on a trial basis near the end of 2024, but that collaboration ended by the time the 2025 Australian Open concluded when Rybakina reinstated Stefano Vukov, who had been suspended by the WTA during a Code of Conduct investigation.

Later in 2025, Ivanisevic joined Stefanos Tsitsipas after Roland Garros, but the pair parted ways by Wimbledon. The Croat insisted there was no “bad blood” between them despite public criticism of Tsitsipas’s fitness.

Fils’s decision to trial Ivanisevic reflects a search for experienced guidance as he aims to rebuild form and fitness in 2026. The Doha run offers an early test of that partnership and a chance for Fils to convert recent momentum into his first final since Tokyo.