A day of satisfaction and rain in Paris, home of Roland Garros 2024. The meetings continue men’s qualifying table and today’s budget in Italy was five wins and two lossesconsequently they are five tennis players reached the decisive round of the cadet draw.
Giove Pluvio, as mentioned, had a hand in it and it was not easy for the players to maintain their standard. Starting from the successes, Matteo Gigante’s comeback victory was beautiful (n.137 in the ranking) against the Czech Dalibor Svrcina (n.193 ATP) for 4-6 6-3 7-5, recovering in the third set from an unfavorable scoring situation. In the next round we will have to face the Brazilianor Gustavus Heide (n.174 in the world).
In two sets, however, the affirmation of Mattia Bellucci. The talented left-handed player (n.173 in the ranking) established himself with a player with an impressive past, the South African Lloyd Harris (n.128 in the world), with a score of 6-1 7-6 (9). The Lombard will find himself in the decisive round of the Spanish draw Moro Canas (n.190 ATP).
The success of always comeback Giulio Zeppieri, which has put the third consecutive qualification for the main draw of this Slam in its sights. Massimo Sartori’s student (world no. 148) beat the Bulgarian Adrian Andreev (n.236 in the ranking), exploiting the rain break to their advantage, and managing to reorganize their ideas. On the score of 4-6 7-5 6-3 the local tennis player prevailed and in the next match he will meet the Finnish Virtanen who had the satisfaction of beating the Austrian Dominic Thiemwho played his last match in Paris given his retirement announced at the end of this 2024.
For this reason, the tournament director, Aurelie Mauresmowanted to give a symbolic award to Thiem for what he has done in the past in this Major, remembering the two consecutive (lost) Finals in 2018 and 2019 it’s a record of 28 victories and 10 defeats on Parisian soil.
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Another success, losing the first set, however Andrea Vavassori. The Piedmontese (n.170 in the ranking) prevailed for 6-7 (5) 7-6 (2) 6-0 against the Lebanese Benjamin Hassan (n.149 ATP) and in the next match he will face the German Henri Squire (n.211 in the ranking). Success also for Francesco Maestrelliwho took advantage of the Spaniard’s withdrawal Bernabe Zapata Miralles (world no. 203) after winning the first set 6-1. The Tuscan (n.206 in the ranking) will play against the eternal Mikhail Kukushkin (n.135 in the world).
Nothing to do instead Stefano Napolitano And Andrea Pellegrino. The Biella native (n.125 in the ranking) disappointed expectations a bit, losing against the Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki (ranking n.163) with a score of 6-3 6-2, while Pellegrino (ranking n.160) had to raise the white flag in front of the Frenchman Gregoire Barrere (n.108 ATP) on the score of 6-2 3-6 6-4.
