Argentine tennis ended a record-breaking week on Sunday, as a trio of male players became the first to feature in the finals of three top-level tournaments played at the same time. 

Mariano Navone (world No. 60), Román Burruchaga (77) and Marco Trungelliti (117) played in the final of Bucharest, Houston and Marrakech, respectively, the three tournaments the professional men’s tennis governing body, ATP, had scheduled. 

It marked the first time there were three Argentine finalists in three tournaments in a single week, with the closest precedent set by Franco Squillari, Gastón Gaudio and Mariano Puerta in July 2000, when the first two matched up at Stuttgart, while the latter played the final at Umag.

Navone was undoubtedly the pick of the bunch. After losses in his two previous finals, the........

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