The Argentine Román Burruchaga fell in the final of the Future M15 tennis tournament that took place this week in Antalya, Turkey, on clay and distributed prizes of 15 thousand dollars. The 20-year-old player born in the city of Buenos Aires, and located in position 527 in the ATP ranking, he succumbed in the definition against the Austrian Lukas Neumayer (555), with partials of 6-4, 1-6 and 6-2.
Son of Jorge Luis (former world champion soccer player with the Argentine national team in Mexico 1986), Burruchaga exhibited a good level in the Turkish contest, in which to reach the final he successively beat the Italian Simone Camposeo, the local Sarp Agabigun, the British Felix Gill and the Japanese Taiyo Yamanaka, all in two sets.
Juan Pablo Paz from Entre Ríos (457 and first seeded) He was eliminated in the first round of the tournament, losing 6-4, 6-0 to Serbian Stefan Popovic (2186). Cordovan Lucio Carnevalle (1738) was also sidelined in the first round, who was beaten by Bulgarian Simon Ivanov (858), 6-0 and 6-3.