The first round was wrapped up in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. Most of the results were straight forward, and mostly exciting for the home hopes, but one of the tournament favourites when crashing out in the opening round. It was a busy day at the Argentina Open, so here is what went down on day two in Buenos Aires.

Results

The biggest name in action was fifth seed Dominic Thiem, who had a tough fight in front of him with Pablo Carreno Busta. Carreno Busta put up a fight, but in the end it was Thiem who scored the victory 6-0, 3-6, 6-3. The young Austrian got off to a lightning fast start, limiting his opponent to eleven points in the entire set. But Carreno Busta bounced back to claim the second set. However, Thiem would refind his form and dominated on his own serve in the deciding set, only dropping four points on his own serve and breaking once to claim victory in an hour and 20 minutes.

Fabio Fognini became the second seeded player to be sent packing in the opening round of the tournament, much to the delight of the home fans, as local boy Frederico Delbonis ousted the erratic Italian 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4. After dropping the opening set in a tiebreak, Delbonis buckled down on serve, limited his sixth seeded opponent to one break in the final two sets. Delbonis would grab three breaks of his own and advanced to the second round in two and a half hours.

The final seeded player in action in the first round, Pablo Cuevas, safely advanced to the second round with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Albert Ramos-Vinolas. The Uruguayan was dominant on serve, pounding ten aces and winning 84% of his first serve points. He saved four of the five break points on his own serve, responding with four breaks of his own and won 62% of his second serve return points.

The home crowd was happy to see two more local favourites advance on Tuesday. Wildcard Renzo Olivo won an all-Argentinian affair over qualifier Facundo Bagnis. Olivo came out on top in a tight opening set tiebreak, before grabbing the late break to claim the 7-6(9), 7-5. Former world number ten Juan Monaco cruised through his opening match against Marco Checchinado, beating the Italian qualifier 6-1, 6-3 in just over an hour. It was not all good news for the locals, as Facundo Arguello was beaten by Dusan Lajovic 7-6(7), 6-3.

In other action, Paolo Lorenzi, who reached the semifinals last week in Quito, fought back to defeat Pablo Andujar 2-6, 7-5, 6-2. Qualifier Gastao Ellis also came back from a set down to beat Daniel Munoz de la Nava 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

The second round gets underway tomorrow with three seeds in action, including fourth seed John Isner and third seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga kick starting their respective campaigns.