Federico Cinà in the photo
With the draw for the main draw, the third edition of the Emilia-Romagna Tennis Cup, the ATP Challenger 125 tournament, officially began, scheduled from Sunday 16 to Saturday 22 June on the courts of the Sporting Club Sassuolo (day tickets and season ticket for all tournament, organized by Master Group Sport 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 turn of the ATP Supervisor Riccardo Ragazzini, supported by the tournament director Alessandro Motti and the president of the Sporting Club Antonio Nicolini, to proceed with the extraction of the 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 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.
THE “QUALIFICATIONS” 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
(flag cc=ITA) Challenger Sassuolo – Main Draw – clay
(1) Federico Coria (cc flag=ARG) vs Francesco Maestrelli (cc flag=ITA)
Bernabe Zapata Miralles (cc flag=ESP) vs (WC) Federico Arnaboldi (cc flag=ITA)
Gerard Campana Lee (cc flag=KOR) vs (Alt) Egor Gerasimov (cc flag=BLR)
Qualifier vs (7) Francisco Comesana (flag cc=ARG)
(4) Daniel Altmaier (cc flag=GER) vs Elias Ymer (cc flag=SWE)
Stefano Travaglia (cc flag=ITA) vs Qualifier
Juan Pablo Varillas (flag cc=PER) vs Qualifier
Maxime Janvier (cc flag=FRA) vs (WC) (5) Fabio Fognini (cc flag=ITA)
(6) Luca Van Assche (cc flag=FRA) vs Roman Andres Burruchaga (cc flag=ARG)
Andrea Pellegrino (cc flag=ITA) vs Tristan Boyer (cc flag=USA)
Qualifier vs Giulio Zeppieri (cc flag=ITA)
(Alt) Juan Pablo Ficovich (cc flag=ARG) vs (3) Borna Coric (cc flag=CRO)
(8) Thiago Agustin Tirante (cc flag=ARG) vs (WC) Federico Cina (cc flag=ITA)
Qualifier vs Qualifier
(Alt) Jiri Vesely (cc flag=CZE) vs Ignacio Buse (cc flag=PER)
Jesper de Jong (cc flag=NED) vs (2) Alexandre Muller (cc flag=FRA)
(flag cc=ITA) Challenger Sassuolo – Qualification scoreboard – clay
(1) Valentin Royer (cc flag=FRA) vs (WC) Gianluca Cadenasso (cc flag=ITA)
Ryan Seggerman (cc flag=USA) vs (10) Alessandro Giannessi (cc flag=ITA)
(2) Federico Agustin Gomez (cc flag=ARG) vs (Alt) Luca Giacomini (cc flag=ITA)
(WC) Federico Bondioli (cc flag=ITA) vs (8) Riccardo Bonadio (cc flag=ITA)
(3) Guido Andreozzi (cc flag=ARG) vs (WC) Samuele Pieri (cc flag=ITA)
Federico Gaio (cc flag=ITA) vs (11) Blake Ellis (cc flag=AUS)
(4) Alexander Weis (cc flag=ITA) vs Gabriele Piraino (cc flag=ITA)
Alexey Vatutin (cc flag=RUS) vs (7) Blake Mott (cc flag=AUS)
(5) Raul Brancaccio (cc flag=ITA) vs Martin Klizan (cc flag=SVK)
(Alt) Luca Castagnola (flag cc=ITA) vs (9) Luka Mikrut (flag cc=CRO)
(6) David Jorda Sanchis (cc flag=ESP) vs (WC) Carlo Alberto Caniato (cc flag=ITA)
Marco Cecchinato (cc flag=ITA) vs (12) Nino Serdarusic (cc flag=CRO)
Center Court – 10am
Raul Brancaccio vs Martin Klizan
Marco Cecchinato 
vs Nino Serdarusic
Federico Bondioli vs Riccardo Bonadio
Ryan Seggerman vs Alessandro Giannessi
Court 4 – 10:00 am
Alexander Weiss vs Gabriele Piraino
David Jorda Sanchis vs Carlo Alberto Caniato
Federico Gaio vs. Blake Ellis
Valentin Royer vs Gianluca Cadenasso
(flag cc=ITA) double scoreboard
(1) Romain Arneodo (cc flag=MON) / Sam Weissborn (cc flag=AUT) vs (WC) Federico Cina (cc flag=ITA) / Federico Gaio (cc flag=ITA)
Ivan Liutarevich (cc flag=BLR) / Sergio Martos Gornes (cc flag=ESP) vs Marcelo Demoliner (cc flag=BRA) / Guillermo Duran (cc flag=ARG)
(3) Boris Arias (cc flag=BOL) / Federico Zeballos (cc flag=BOL) vs Ryan Seggerman (cc flag=USA) / Patrik Trhac (cc flag=USA)
(WC) Federico Bondioli (cc flag=ITA) / Marco Cecchinato (cc flag=ITA) vs Daniel Altmaier (cc flag=GER) / Luis David Martinez (cc flag=FRI)
Denys Molchanov (cc flag=UKR) / Philipp Oswald (cc flag=AUT) vs Toshihide Matsui (cc flag=JPN) / Kaito Uesugi (cc flag=JPN)
Roman Andres Burruchaga (cc flag=ARG) / Federico Coria (cc flag=ARG) vs (4) Andre Begemann (cc flag=GER) / Victor Cornea (cc flag=ROU)
Marco Bortolotti (cc flag=ITA) / Matthew Christopher Romios (cc flag=AUS) vs Blake Ellis (cc flag=AUS) / Jonathan Eysseric (cc flag=FRA)
Petr Nouza (cc flag=CZE) / Patrik Rikl (cc flag=CZE) vs (2) Guido Andreozzi (cc flag=ARG) / Miguel Reyes-Varela (cc flag=MEX)
