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Cordoba Open: Juan Ignacio Londero caps off dream week to win maiden ATP title

DREAM week for @juanlondero on 🇦🇷 soil👏👏1st ATP win ✅1st ATP quarter-final ✅1st ATP semi-final ✅1st ATP final ✅MAIDEN ATP 🏆 😲!!! pic.twitter.com/vBgSeoYehx

— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) February 11, 2019

Cordoba Open made its debut on the ATP Tour last week, replacing the Ecuador Open in Quito, kicking off the Latin American swing of the 2019 season.

And the tournament's debut also saw a first-time champion as Wild Card Juan Ignacio Londero rounded off a dream week to defeat fellow Argentine Guido Pella in the final from a set and a break down, 3-6, 7-5,6-1, to capture the title in his home country.

The 25-year-old not only grabbed his first ATP title but astonishingly also got his first tour-level main draw win in the event and didn't lose a single set before the final.

He will now jump 43 places in the ATP singles rankings and will rise to a career-high ranking of 69, entering the World's top 100 for the very first time.

Guido Pella, who defeated the likes of Ramos-Vinolas, Pablo Cuevas and Diego Schwartzman on his way to the final, failed to snap his finals losing streak, and is now 0-4 in ATP Tour-level finals, all of which have come on clay.

Top seed Fabio Fognini suffered a rare early round loss in a clay event as he was ousted by Aljaz Bedene in his opening match while second seed and 2018 Roland Garros semi-finalist Marco Cecchinato also crashed out in his opener, losing to Spanish Next Gen star Jaume Munar.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who had a brilliant clay swing in 2017, where he reached the final of the Monte Carlo Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of 17, has continued to fall off the grid since his disappointing 2018 season, as he also lost his opening main draw match in Cordoba, to Guido Pella, falling outside the World’s top 90 in the process.

Next week, the action on the ATP Tour will shift to ATP 250 tournaments in New York and Buenos Aires, and to the first ATP 500 tournament of the season in Rotterdam.

The various events will feature the likes of Kei Nishikori, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Karen Khachanov, Dominic Thiem and Frances Tiafoe, to name a few.