The Aspria Tennis Cup-BCS Trophy comes of age: the 18th edition of the ATP Challenger starts on Saturday and will take place as per tradition at the Harbor Club in Milan. We start again from the success of Facundo Diaz Acosta, an Argentinian who played excellently last year: from there he started a run-up that brought him close to the top 50 and to victory in the Buenos Aires tournament. But last year was also the edition of the young Italians, with Gigante, Cobolli and Nardi who in the meantime have come a long way. Milan has often launched future great names in world tennis, respecting the spirit of the Challenger tournaments: Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune, among others, have passed through the courts in via Cascina Bellaria, not far from the San Siro stadium, and this time it will be Martin’s turn Landaluce, an 18-year-old great promise of Spanish tennis, a product of Rafa Nadal’s academy, and the Italian Federico Cinà, last year’s semi-finalist at the US Open Junior.
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But the tournament has in the past also been made competitive by the presence of former top ten players such as Tommy Robredo, Nicolas Almagro and Ernests Gulbis, and among others the name of Davis Cup captain Filippo Volandri is among the winners . He will be the only ATP Challenger of the week in Europe and this will help renew the tradition by bringing some top-100 players to Milan, perhaps some clay court specialists looking for points. Also because the final will be played on Saturday, no longer on Sunday: whoever is on the draw at Wimbledon will have an extra day to travel to London and will therefore be encouraged to face the Milanese tournament with maximum commitment to the end. Many collateral initiatives, including a tournament for amateurs, free entry until Wednesday, the day of the round of 16. For the first time, the Aspria Tennis Cup will be live every day on Supertennis and Supertennix.
