Mariano Hood Mariano Hood (born 14 August 1973) is a retired left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles. In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and curren ...

and Sebastián Prieto were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Hood with Lucas Arnold and Prieto with Martín García. García and Prieto lost in the first round to

Juan Ignacio Chela Juan Ignacio Chela (; born 30 August 1979), nicknamed as "El Flaco" or "Liliano," is a tennis coach and former professional player from Argentina. Chela was given a three-month ban from the professional tour in 2001 for failing a drugs test. Post ...

and

Nicolás Massú Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (; born 10 October 1979), nicknamed ''El Vampiro'' (Spanish, 'the vampire'), is a Chilean tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ...

. Arnold and Hood won in the final 7–5, 6–7^(2–7), 6–4 against

Federico Browne Federico Browne (born 7 April 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Career Browne was the number one ranked junior in the world in 1994, winning numerous titles that year, including the Banana Bowl. He was also the 1994 B ...

and Diego Veronelli.

Seeds

# Lucas Arnold /

(champions) #

František Čermák František Čermák (born 14 November 1976) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Career In his career, Čermák won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Tour and he was a finalist 24 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world ...

Leoš Friedl Leoš Friedl (born 1 January 1977) is a retired Czech tennis player. Friedl's career-high ATP doubles ranking was No. 14, achieved on 8 August 2005. He often partnered in doubles with František Čermák. His career-high ATP singles ranking wa ...

''(semifinals)'' #

Simon Aspelin Simon Aspelin (; born 11 May 1974) is a former professional tennis doubles player from Sweden who turned professional in 1998. His success mainly came in doubles, winning 12 titles and reaching World No. 7 in March 2008. In men's doubles, Aspeli ...

Massimo Bertolini Massimo Bertolini (born 30 May 1974) is a retired, Italian professional tennis player. Bertolini had a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 329, achieved on 1 May 1995. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 36, a ...

''(first round)'' # Martín García / Sebastián Prieto ''(first round)''

Draw

References

ATP Buenos Aires Main Draw
ATP Buenos Aires 2004 ATP Tour ATP