Main field draw: A tough challenge awaits Seppi in Val Gardena

Seppi will face Poland's Jerzy Janowicz, number 10 in the world rankings, in the first round next Tuesday (October 18th at 145 p.m.). Janowicz is the best placed unseeded player in the strong field of participants at the 8th edition of the 64.000 euro tournament in Val Gardena. Seppi is taking part in the home tournament in St. Ulrich for the first time since his victory in 2014 and, in his fourth participation, is not seeded number 1 for the first time, but only number 3 at the biggest tennis tournament in South Tyrol.

Patrick Prader was also unlucky. The 31-year-old from Barbian, who received the organizers' wild card after Thanasi Kokkinakis' short-term cancellation, will face number 1 seed Marius Copil from Romania in the first round on Wednesday. The world number 77 is still in action on Sunday in the final of the Challenger in Kaohsiung in Taiwan against the Russian Evegeny Donskoy and will not arrive in Val Gardena until Tuesday.

Four players from the top 100 in the world rankings are competing this year. The number 2 seeded Norbert Gombos from Slovakia (number 80 in the world) will initially face the Italian Lorenzo Sonego, who was in the semi-finals in Val Gardena a year ago. The number 4 Pierre-Hugues Herbert from France will play against Laurynas Grigelis from Lithuania at the start. And the currently strong Hungarian Marton Fucsovics will face defending champion Stefano Napolitano in the first round.

Meanwhile, qualification began this morning on the two courts at the Tennis Center in Ortisei. Michal Przysiezny was one of the first to reach the second round. The Pole, who won the first Challenger tournament in Ortisei in 2010, fended off five match points in a row in the tiebreak of the second set before Croatian Antonio Sancic gave up due to stomach pain when the score was 2-2 in the third set. Jonas Ciechi was the first of the five South Tyroleans to take part. The 19-year-old from Ortisei had no chance against Kevin Krawietz from Germany. The world number 366 won 39:6, 1:6 in just 0 minutes. Krawietz reached the singles semi-finals in Val Gardena last year and also won the doubles.

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Main field draw: A tough challenge awaits Seppi in Val Gardena

Today at 13 p.m. the main draw for the Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena South Tyrol was drawn under the supervision of ATP supervisor Carmelo Di Dio. And both the crowd favorite Andreas Seppi and Patrick Prader faced tough opponents at the start.

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