Challenger Val Gardena: Alex Vittur in the second qualifying round - UPDATE

The man from Bruneck, who no longer appears in the world rankings but was at number 2004 in 605, won his first round match today against the 18-year-old Italian Christian Perinti 6:2, 6:3 and showed that he is comfortable on the fast carpet feels very comfortable in the Runggaditsch hall. Tomorrow at 10 a.m. Vittur has to play in the second round against the Swiss Sandro Ehrat (ATP number 337), who reached the final at the Futures tournament in Bolzano in July.

However, the other South Tyroleans who were in action at the most important tennis tournament in South Tyrol were eliminated. The 16-year-old local hero Patric Prinoth from St. Christina lost ten of the last eleven games against the Croatian Lovro Zovko and had to admit defeat 2:6, 1:6. However, Prinoth was not completely fit going into the match.

Jacob Nicolussi from TC Rungg had to admit defeat to the German Sami Reinwein (world ranking number 632) 3:6 and 1:6. Matteo Dellagiacoma, his Fiemme Valley club colleague from TC Rungg, has also left. Despite a 4:1 lead in the first set, he lost to Belarusian Dzmitry Zhyrmont (ATP 308), who was number three in the qualification, 6:7 (3) and 1:6.

Simon Berger misses the sensation: defeat after match point Simon Berger faced the sensation against the number five seeded German Moritz Baumann (ATP number 351) when he had a match point with a score of 7:6 (10:8), 5:3, 40:30. Berger, a 17-year-old young player from St. Lorenzen who plays for TC Bruneck, served a double fault and lost the game and a little later also the second set 5:7. In the end he lost 7:6, 5:7, 2:6.

In the evening, Thomas Holzer also said goodbye to the home tournament in St. Ulrich. The 28-year-old Kalterer, ex-professional and U-12 Italian champion in his youth in 1995, had got the most difficult first round draw. He had to compete against Poland's Michal Przysiezny, who won the Challenger tournament in Ortisei in 2010. Przysiezny, number 269 in the world, prevailed 6-3, 6-4.

In the last match of the day, Philip Lageder from Ortisei had no chance against the Russian Denis Matsukevitch, number 554 in the world rankings, and lost 1:6, 1:6.

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Challenger Val Gardena: Alex Vittur in the second qualifying round - UPDATE

Alex Vittur was the only South Tyrolean to reach the second round of qualification at the Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena South Tyrol.

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