Challenger Val Gardena: Jannik Sinner surprises in doubles

The sixth team surprisingly reached the double quarter-finals alongside Stefano Napolitano from Italy. The two prevailed on Monday evening in the tennis center in Val Gardena against birthday girl Simone Bolelli (who was 33 years old) and Viktor Galovic with 3:6, 7:6 (5) and 10:7 in the match tiebreak. After 1:29 hours of play, the surprise was perfect. For Sinner it was the first match ever in Val Gardena.

However, there was nothing to gain for the two South Tyroleans Patric Prinoth and Alexander Weis. The two lost to the number four seeded duo Sander Gille/Joran Veilen from Belgium 6:7(5), 5:7.

Super Tuesday The three big favorites to win the tournament will take part in the action on Tuesday. The world number 55. Pierre-Hugues Herbert plays against Bosnian Tomislav Brkic in the second match of the day. At 14 p.m. Stefano Napolitano, the 2016 Val Gardena winner, will meet Frenchman Gregoire Barrere. In the afternoon, number 2 seed Lukas Lacko from Slovakia will also play against Ante Pavic from Croatia and number 3 seed Jaume Munar from Spain will play against qualifier Kirill Kivattsev. At 18 p.m., South Tyrolean Jannik Sinner will make his first big appearance at the home tournament. The 17-year-old from Sexten plays in the wild card duel against the Italian Luca Giacomini. In the evening the first round match between Simone Bolelli and Sergiy Stakhovsky from Ukraine is on the program.

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Challenger Val Gardena: Jannik Sinner surprises in doubles

Jannik Sinner from Sexten won the first match at the Sparkasse Challenger Val Gardena South Tyrol on Monday.

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