There is a more or less set in stone paradigm: in Challengers and ITFs there is more room for surprises than in major circuit tournaments. Below the hundredth position there is an impressive balance, which numbers and rankings are incapable of describing. So there is no surprise at the fall of even noble seeded players. However, al AZIMUT Trophy of Bergamo ($15,000, clay) we are going further: we don’t know if it is a record, but it is certain that in the quarter-finals there is only one seed left in the competition, the 29-year-old Argentine Juan Pablo Pazformer ATP top-300 player who today is in 591st position and is number 3 in the seeding at the Tennis Club Città dei Mille.
By beating Leonardo Margaroli from Bergamo with a convincing 6-4 6-2 he reached the quarterfinals, improving on the second round reached in 2021, the year of his only appearance in Bergamo. Back then he beat Alessandro Bega (second seed) but surrendered in the round of 16 to his compatriot Galarza. This year he automatically becomes the favorite because all the seeding pillars have fallen, one after the other. The last to give up was Gabriele Pennaforti, n.1 on the scoreboard. The Roman fought for two and a half hours against the other Argentinian Lucio Carnevalle, but surrendered with a score of 6-1 1-6 6-4.
