Fourth goal for Gigante and Arnaldi in San Marino
The second round was also fatal to the Spaniard Carlos Taberner108 ATP and first seeded favorite, surprised by the 20-year-old Romanian Filippo Cristian Jianu (n.329 ATP), entered in extremis on the scoreboard as alternate after the forfeit of the American Moreno De Alboran. The 25-year-old from Valencia, who boasts 5 challenger trophies on the showcase, the last of which in the spring in Roseto degli Abruzzi, in the first set he gave up the bar in the seventh game, then found himself under 5-3 and in the tenth game he did not convert two opportunity for the counter-break that was worth the re-engagement at 5-5.
On the momentum Jianu, who at the debut had blocked the way to the former top ten Ernests Gulbis, took a break advantage in the second set and was able to keep it, so as to grasp an important result confirming his growth, after the semifinals in Aguascalientes, on Mexican soil, and the quarters in Turin. The Bucharest tennis player will play a place in the semifinals with the other Spaniard on Friday Nikolas Sanchez Izquierdo (# 252), who won a comeback with a score of 2-6 6-1 6-3 over Dutch Robin Haase (# 258 ATP), winner of this tournament in 2010 when he defeated Filippo Volandri in the final.