The third edition of the competition officially kicked off with the draw for the main draw.Emilia-Romagna Tennis CupATP Challenger 125 tournament, scheduled from Sunday 16 to Saturday 22 June on the fields of the Sporting Club Sassuolo (day tickets and subscription to the entire tournament, organized by Master Group Sports in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Region, on sale on the Vivaticket circuit).
The draw was preceded by the delivery of the ATP kit consisting of cap, shorts and t-shirt to all the boys who will serve as ball boys during the tournament. The boys are all enrolled in the Sporting Club or attending the tennis school on the Sassuolo courts. It was then the ATP Supervisor’s turn Riccardo Ragazzini supported by the tournament director Alexander Motti by the president of the Sporting Club Antonio Nicolini proceed with the extraction of names for the composition of the main draw whose matches will begin on Monday 17th and end with the final on Saturday 22nd June at 6pm.
The number 1 seed, the Argentine Federico Coria he will face the Italian in the first round Francis Masters finalist of the last edition, while the winner of 2023 Alexander Muller will be opposed to Dutch Jesper De Jong. For Fabio Fognini the first obstacle will be French Maxime JanvierWhile Federico Arnaboldi he will deal with the Spanish Bernabe Zapata Miralles. The young talent Federico China he will have to face the experience of the Argentine Thiago Guy (seeded number 8), while the Croatian Borna Coric will cross the racket with another Argentine, Juan Pablo Ficovich.
In the other matches, the Korean Lee Campana will face Egor Gerasimov, while the Swede Elias Ymer will face the German Daniel Altmaier, seeded number 4. The match between the young French talent Luca Van Assche (seeded number 4) is also worth following. ) and the Argentine Roman Burruchaga, while Andrea Pellegrino will challenge the American Tristan Boyer and the Czech Jiri Vesely will challenge the Peruvian Ignacio Buse. The opponents of Giulio Zeppieri, Juan Pablo Varillas, Stefano Travaglia, Francisco Comesana will finally exit the qualifiers.
The qualifying scoreboard
Twenty-four tennis players for six places available in the main draw. It will be a Sunday of passion for the athletes who will hunt for the “pass” to the main draw. Among these, the enfant du pay, the 19-year-old from Ravenna Federico Bondioli (who trains on the fields of the Sporting Club Sassuolo) will face Riccardio Bonadio in one of the two Italian derbies (in the other Alexander Weis will be opposed to Gabriele Piraino). Other Italians in the field on Sunday 16 June (start at 10:00) are Gianluca Cadenasso against the Frenchman Valentin Royer (number 194 in the world and number 1 seed in the qualifiers), Alessandro Giannessi who will face the American Ryan Seggerman , Luca Giacomini against the Argentine Federico Agustin Gomez, Samuele Pieri against the Argentine Guido Andreozzi, Federico Gaio against the Australian Blake Ellis, Raul Brancaccio against the Slovakian Martin Klizan (already number 24 in the world and returning to the field after two years absence), Carlo Alberto Caniato will challenge the Spaniard David Jorda Sanchis, while Marco Cecchinato will face the Croatian Nino Serdarusic. There is also an Italian-Croatian cross between Luca Castagnola and Luka Mikrut, while the Russian Alexey Vatutin will face the Australian Blake Mott. The second round of the qualifiers is scheduled for the morning of Monday 17 June.
The doubles scoreboard
The doubles draw has also been drawn with sixteen pairs at the start including Federico Bondioli together with Marco Cecchinato who in the first round will face the pair formed by the German Daniel Altmaier and the Venezuelan Luis David Martinez. On the court, in doubles, three other Italians: Federico Cinà and Federico Gaio will face the Monegasque Romain Arneodo and the Austrian Sam Weissborn (seeded number 1), while Marco Bortolotti paired with the Australian Matthew Romios will face Blake Ellis (AUS ) and Jonathan Eysseric (FRA). The other first round matches will see the Russian Ivan Liutarevich and the Spaniard Sergio Martos Gornes against the Brazilian Marcelo Demoliner and the Argentine Guillermo Duran, the Bolivians Boris Arias and Federico Zeballos (seeded number 3) against the Americans Ryan Seggerman and Patrick Trhac, the Ukrainian Denys Molchanov together with the Austrian Philipp Oswald against the Japanese Toshihide Matsui and Kaito Uesugi, the Argentinians Federico Coria and Roman Burruchaga against the German Andre Begemann and the Romanian Victor Cornea (seeded number 4), finally the Argentine Guido Andreozzi and the Mexican Miguel Reyes-Varela (seeded number 2) will face the Czechs Patrik Rikl and Petr Nouza.
The matches of the “doubles” tournament will begin on Monday 17th and will end on Saturday 22nd at 3:00 pm with the final on central court.
EMILIA-ROMAGNA TENNIS CUP PROGRAM
SUNDAY 16 JUNE: Qualifying from 10:00
MONDAY 17 JUNE: Qualifying and first round from 10:00 am and a match at 8:00 pm
TUESDAY 18 JUNE: First round from 10:00 am and a match at 8:00 pm
WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE: Round of 16 from 10:00 am and a match at 8:00 pm
THURSDAY 20 JUNE: Quarter-finals from 11:00 am and a match at 8:00 pm
FRIDAY 21 JUNE: Doubles semi-finals at 12.00 pm and Singles semi-finals at 3.00 pm and 5.00 pm
SATURDAY 22 JUNE: Doubles final at 3.00 pm and Singles final at 6.00 pm
