Camilo Ugo Carabelli has won the Costa do Sauipe Challenger. On Sunday 8 November, in the final of the Brazilian Challenger 125, the Argentine beat home favourite Thiago Seyboth Wild 6-2 7-5. The tournament was played on clay and had begun on 2 November.
The title is worth 125 points and has an immediate effect on the rankings. Ugo Carabelli moves from No. 81 to No. 65 in the ATP ranking, a jump of 16 places, and now has 845 points. Miomir Kecmanovic (No. 64, 859 points) is just ahead of him, Facundo Diaz Acosta (No. 66, 836) just behind.
The gaps in that part of the table are tiny: 14 points to Kecmanovic, a 9-point lead over Diaz Acosta, who went out in the semifinals at Costa do Sauipe. Fabian Marozsan, No. 63, has 875 points, 30 more than Ugo Carabelli. A few results are enough to shuffle the order again. His career-high ranking remains No. 58 from 13 July 2026, seven places higher.
The road to the title was almost always straightforward. In the first round Ugo Carabelli beat Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-7(6) 6-4 6-2, coming back after losing the first set in a tie-break. It remained his only deciding set of the week.
From the round of 16 onwards he dropped no more sets. He beat Igor Ribeiro Marcondes 6-4 6-4 and, in the quarterfinals, Bolivia's Juan Carlos Prado Angelo 6-2 6-3. Prado Angelo had also reached the semifinals in 2025, a result that earned him 45 points back then, and this year he went out one round earlier.
In the semifinals he faced Peru's Gonzalo Bueno, and won 6-3 6-1. Bueno had reached that stage by an unusual route: in the first round he advanced when Daniel Elahi Galan retired at 4-6 5-5, the only retirement of the tournament, then won two tie-breaks against Eduardo Ribeiro and beat Lautaro Midon 6-1 6-2 in the quarterfinals.
On the other side of the draw was Seyboth Wild, now No. 98 with 609 points. The Brazilian beat Felipe Meligeni Alves 6-2 6-3, Franco Roncadelli 6-1 7-6(5), Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva 7-6(4) 6-2 and, in the semifinals, Diaz Acosta 7-6(5) 6-4. He had not dropped a single set before the final.
The final was shaped by a strong start: Ugo Carabelli took the first set 6-2 and, in a closer second set, finished it off 7-5. According to this site's records it is the first meeting between the two, so the head-to-head stands at 1-0 for the Argentine. The record will grow with future matches.
For Seyboth Wild the defeat does not erase a very good spell. In his last 10 matches he has 9 wins and a single loss, Sunday's. Earlier in 2026 he had already won the final of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger against Hugo Dellien, 6-4 6-3. Since 9 September he has climbed 100 places in the rankings.
The tournament featured a draw of 27 players from 13 countries. Brazil was the most represented nation with 9 players, ahead of Argentina with 6, yet the title went to an Argentine. There were 26 matches played, with 15 tie-breaks and 6 matches going to a deciding set.
The longest match was Marco Cecchinato against Francisco Comesana: 6-1 6-7(4) 7-6(0), 33 games in all. Cecchinato, the only Italian in the draw, went on to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Diaz Acosta.
On the list of champions, the 2025 edition went to Roman Andres Burruchaga, who beat Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 6-1 6-2 in the final. Those 125 points drop off Burruchaga's ranking with the new edition. Ugo Carabelli collects the same amount.
Within his season, the title weighs heavily. Among the 2026 results listed on his profile, none other exceeds 50 points: the second round at the Shanghai Masters 1000 was worth 25, the Umag quarterfinal 50. In Shanghai he had beaten Ilia Simakin 2-6 6-2 7-5 before losing to Felix Auger Aliassime 4-6 7-6(1) 7-5.
The rest of 2026 had been more uneven: first-round exits at Wimbledon, the US Open, Cincinnati and Montreal, the round of 16 at the Cancun Challenger and the quarterfinals in Guayaquil. Over his last 30 matches the record is 13 wins and 17 losses, but over the last 10 it improves to 8 wins and 2 losses. The week in Brazil has reversed the trend.
On the main tour, 2025 ended with 16 wins and 25 losses, no titles, and two semifinals at Umag and Bastad worth 100 points each. The Costa do Sauipe Challenger 125 is therefore an important result for a player who, at 27, is looking for consistency among the world's top 70.
Consistency is what matters now. With 845 points, Ugo Carabelli sits in a stretch of the rankings where a few dozen points separate five places: from Marozsan (No. 63, 875 points) to Yannick Hanfmann (No. 67, 835 points) the total gap is 40 points. On this site his profile will update his position and points after every new result.
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