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Unseeded Horacio Zeballos(Above) beat fellow Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday to knock the No. 1 seed out of the Movistar Open, the first clay-court tournament of the ATP season.
t was the first match between the two and the loss shocked Nalbandian, who had been off to a good start this season. It's Zeballos' first tournament of the year.
Three other players joined Zeballos on Thursday in the quarterfinals: No. 8 Santiago Giraldo, No. 4 Juan Ignacio Chela and No. 5 Potito Starace.
Giraldo of Colombia reached his third quarterfinals this year when he beat Igor Andreev of Russia 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-2. After missing four break points in the second set, Giraldo dominated the last set to finish off Andreev in just under 2½ hours.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=6087268
