Predictions respected. Lucrezia Stefanini he made his consistency and experience count in the Italian derby against the 17 year old Vittoria Paganettitennis player from the Bari Tennis Club nursery, in challenge valid for the first round of the Italian Internationals in Rome.
On the red clay of the Foro Italico, “Vicky” faced her most esteemed opponent with the spirit of following up her magic moment, considering the conquest of the wild card for the main draw through the victory of the pre-qualifiers in the evocative setting of Piazza of the people. The Apulian (n.818 in the ranking), therefore, had to surrender to Stefanini (n.179 in the world), also in the draw thanks to a wild card, on the score of 7-5 6-3. It will therefore be the 25 year old native of Florence who will face the Czech in the second round Linda Noskova (n.29 of the seeding).
In the first set, unexpectedly the start is entirely in favor of the young girl from Bari. Paganetti flies to 3-0 “heavily, but the reaction of the more experienced tennis player of the two arrives on time. Stefanini, in fact, manages to make the score 3-3. However, the 17-year-old Italian created two more “break” chances and capitalized on them, having the opportunity to serve for the fraction, canceling a counter-break ball in the eighth game. At the final stage there was a bit of tension in the class of 2006 and Stefanini prevailed at 7-5.
In the second set Paganetti finds herself ahead by a break in two circumstances, in the first and third game, but her opponent is inexorable in response and with two counter-breaks in the second and fourth game she puts things right. At the end of the match, Lucrezia prevailed, finding her advantages concrete in the eighth game, breaking her opponent’s serve and closing the matter at 6-3.
