Mexico’s Magadan and Colombia’s Mejia advance in Los Cabos qualifiers
Los Cabos, July 12, 2025.- Mexican Alan Magadán and Colombian Nicolás Mejía (No. 243) advanced on Saturday in the qualifying tournament of the ninth edition of the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo, whose main tournament will be played from July 14 to 19 at the Cabo Sports Complex, in a day in which Mexican Luca Lemaitre was eliminated.
Magadan defeated Australian Moerani Bouzige in three sets in two hours and 45 minutes by 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(5). The Mexican came back from a set down to take the match in the third set to a tiebreaker where he also started down 0-4, but reacted and took advantage of his opponent’s errors to win 7-5.
In the first round, Mejia beat American Isaiah Strode 6-2, 7-5 and tomorrow, along with Magadan, will be looking for one of the four tickets to the main draw, while Lemaitre lost to Estonian Mark Lajal 6-2, 6-3.
Meanwhile, Australian veteran Bernard Tomic won 6-2, 6-2 against American Elijah Strode.
Murphy Cassone won 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 against Evan Zhu and Govind Nanda defeated Strong Kirchheimer 6-4, 6-1.
Meanwhile, China ‘s Yibing Wu beat American Braden Shick 6-1, 6-4 and Japan’ s Yasutaka Uchiyama lost to Canada ‘s Taha Baadi 6-4, 6-3.
The qualifying tournament in Los Cabos is played on Saturday and Sunday and awards four tickets to the main draw. The qualifying matches are Mejia-Cassone, Magadan-Lajal, Baadi-Nanda and Tomic-Wu.