Last weekend the Russi Sporting Club hosted a double stage of the FITP-TPRA amateur circuit “Road to Turin: the women’s doubles Expert Level and the men’s Expert Level singles. Last Saturday the women’s doubles match was played, which saw the success of the couple formed by Barbara Salvi and Elisa Fabbri (both members of the River 22 Sporting Club), so as to gain the 650 points up for grabs for the winners. The following day the men’s Expert Level singles tournament was played.
At the end of the matches between the “fighters”, Federico Andalò fully respected his role as the main favourite, collecting 520 points: the 34-year-old registered for the coach Zavaglia Ravenna in the quarterfinals gave a double “bagel” to the host Gaetano Zafarana, then in the semi-final he beat Stefano Giacomuzzi (Forum Tennis Forlì) 4-1, 4-1 and in the key match he prevailed 4-2, 4-1 over Luca Pirazzini, already a finalist in a Tpra tournament in Russi last November. The latter, representative of the Massa Lombarda coach, made his way into the lower half of the scoreboard by overcoming Nicolò Ronchi (Tc Castelbolognese) 4-0 4-0 and then eliminating Luciano Petraroli (Brindisi coach) 4-1 4-0. Meanwhile, the adventure in the affiliates’ championship has begun for the teams of the Russi Sporting Club. On the first day of the men’s D2 series the Russian team (readmitted to this category due to sporting merit) lost 4-1 in the derby on the fields of Tc Faenza (point of the flag of Giacomo Gordini, defeated Riccardo Cicinelli, Riccardo Banzola, Andrea Melandri and the Cicinelli-Gordini double). Sunday will be the home debut with the coach Casalboni Santarcangelo. However, the debut of the men’s D4 team was postponed: the home match with Tozzona Tennis Park ‘A’ Imola (set for Monday evening) was postponed to Friday at 7pm due to the impracticability of the courts.
