Sunday 16 June 2024
The third edition of the Emilia-Romagna Tennis Cup, ATP Challenger 125 tournament, scheduled from today to Saturday 22 June, begins today on the courts of the Sporting Club Sassuolo. The main draw draw was held yesterday and will begin on Monday. The number 1 seed, the Argentine Federico Coria will face the Italian Francesco Maestrelli, last edition’s finalist, in the first round, while the 2023 winner Alexandre Muller will face the Dutch Jesper De Jong. For Fabio Fognini the first obstacle will be the Frenchman Maxime Janvier, while Federico Arnaboldi will face the Spaniard Bernabe Zapata Miralles. The young talent Federico Cinà will have to face the experience of the Argentine Thiago Tirante (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.
Qualifiers that will begin this morning at 10. Twenty-four tennis players for six places available in the main draw. On the pitch today 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 on the field today are Gianluca Cadenasso against the French 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 of absence), Carlo Alberto Caniato will challenge the Spanish 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 tomorrow morning.
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 “doubles” tournament matches will begin tomorrow.
