Juan Martin Del Potro, a seventeen-year-old Argentine, won the Uruguay round of the Petrobras Cup on Sunday, beating Boris Pashanski of Serbia-Montenegro for his first ever title from the Association of Tennis Players circuit.

With the win of 6-3, 2-6 and 7-6 (7-3), Del Potro made the top 150 tennis players on the ATP list, a huge jump from his previous 1,077th place.

Del Potro, who is from Tandil, a town in the province of Buenos Aires, thanked the Uruguayan crowd for "cheering me on at all times" and making him feel at home.

Pashanski, 112th in the ATP, has beaten American Hugo Armando 7-5 and 7-6 for the final while Del Potro qualified by beating fellow Argentine Maximo Gonzalez 6-4 and 6-1.

The Petrobras Cup is a five-week long contest which started in October in Quito, continued in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, then visited Santiago in Chile. Its final two stops are in Argentina and Brazil.

Source: Xinhua