Moroni, Cobolli and Agamenone-Zeppieri on the menu
Four Italian players are involved in the quarter-finals of the “Roma Garden Open”, ATP challenger endowed with € 45,730 in prize money which is heading for the decisive phase on the fields in land of the circle of the capital.
Gian Marco Moroni (# 178 ATP, “best ranking”), after the statements in two sets on the former French top 10 Gilles Simon (# 158 ATP), number 8 in the seeding, and on the Kazakh qualifier Denis Yevseyev (# 345 ATP) , at the opening of the program asks the way to the Turkish Ergi Kirkin (# 343 ATP), also coming from qualifying: there are no precedents between the 24 year old from Rome and the 23 year old from Ankara.
So it’s a tricolor derby for a place in the semifinals between Franco Agamenone (# 176 ATP), who eliminated the French Manuel Guinard, # 151 ATP and sixth-seeded, and Jonathan Eysseric (# 864 ATP), coming from qualifying, and Giulio Zeppieri (# 229 ATP), competing with a wild card, who won over the other wild card Stefano Napolitano (# 552 ATP), among other things also his doubles partner in this tournament, and then eliminated the British Jack Draper (# 124 ATP), second seed. Even the one between the 20-year-old from Latina and the 29-year-old of Argentine origins (he was born in Rio Cuarto) is an unprecedented challenge on the tour.
In the end Flavio Cobolli (# 146 ATP), third favorite on the board, after the successes in three sets against the Croatian Borna Coric (# 262 ATP), pushed up to 12th place in the world in 2018, and on Thomas Fabbiano (ATP n.197), Take on the French Kenny De Schepper (# 449 ATP), who went through the qualifications: also in this case there are no precedents between the 19-year-old blue and the 34-year-old left-handed from Bordeaux, who reached the 67th position in the ranking in April 2014.