Sparkassen Trophy: Top seeds Gaio and Kolar continue

The start of the tournament on Tuesday went anything but according to plan for the heavy title favorite Gaio (ATP 158). With his back against the wall, he only managed to turn the game around at the last minute. The numerous tennis fans at the facility in Rungg were all the more excited about Gaio's second appearance against the Croatian Franjo Raspudic (ATP 775). Both started out very nervous. An early break from Gaio was followed a little later by the rebreak. When the score was 4:3, Raspudic again had three break points to make it 5:3. But he left it unused, Gaio equalized to 4:4, took the Croatian's serve in the following game and then served out to make it 6:4. The second set was poor in highlights, the tournament winner from San Benedetto and Biella now played too confidently, finishing the set 6:3.

Kolar hardened and confident There were few uncertainties today with the number 2 of the tournament, the Czech Kolar (ATP 257) against Wilson Leite (ATP 827). “At the beginning of the first set I didn't feel so good. Especially when it comes to footwork. After that it got better, I increased the pace from the baseline and finally won without any major problems,” said Kolar after his round of 19 match. With his performance, the 257-year-old confirmed that he is rightly one of the favorites to win the tournament. Kolar is currently at position XNUMX in the ATP world rankings; In July he reached the semi-finals of the Challenger tournament in Prague.

Hernandez-Fernandez is working overtime In the second game of the day on Center Court, Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (ATP 296 and number four on the seeding list) played against the Italian Francesco Picco. Hernandez-Fernandez, the newly crowned winner of the ITF tournament in Bolzano, had no trouble in the first set. Thanks to two breaks, he clearly won it 6:2. In the second set, Picco changed his game a bit, he played with more variety and managed to get Hernandez-Fernandez out of step. Picco managed the break to make it 5:3 in the second set, which was enough to win the set later. In the third set, however, Hernandez-Fernandez found her way back into the match. After the early break to make it 3-1, Picco's resistance was finally broken. The third set ended 6:1. Of the top seeds in the tournament, only one made a mistake yesterday: Pedro Cachin (ATP 280 and number 3 on the seeding list). He lost to Adelchi Virgili (560) 6:4, 6:4, who showed on Wednesday why he is considered a great talent in Italian tennis. A great hope for Brazil is Marcelo Zormann, junior Wimbledon champion and French Open finalist in doubles, who somewhat surprisingly knocked Matteo Viola (ATP 330) out of the tournament in two sets (6:4, 6:3) on Wednesday. The quarter-finals in singles and the semi-finals in doubles will be played in Rungg on Thursday. It starts at 12 p.m., the top game of the day between Federico Gaio and Yannick Hanfmann is scheduled for 17 p.m. As usual, entry for the public is free.

Sparkasse Trophy - TC Rungg – $25.000 + Hospitality Main field round of XNUMX Federico Gaio (ITA/1/ATP 158) - Franjo Raspudic (CRO/Q/ATP 775) 6:4, 6:3 Yannick Hanfmann (GER/ATP 340) - Juan Pablo Ficovich (ARG/Q/ATP 1052) 4:6, 6:3, 6:1 Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM/4/ATP 296) - Francesco Picco (ITA/ATP 491) 6:2, 3:6, 6:1 Marcelo Zormann (BRA/ATP 492) - Matteo Viola (ITA/8/ATP 330) 6:4, 6:3 Jonathan Eysseric (FRA/ATP 347) - Juan Pablo Paz (ARG/7/ATP 317) 6:1, 3:6, 7:5 Adelchi Virgili (ITA/ATP 560) - Pedro Cachin (ARG/3/ATP 280) 6:4, 6:4 Jeremy Jahn (GER/6/ATP 307) - Marcel Felder (URU/Q) 6:4, 6:4 Zdenek Kolar (CZE/2/ATP 257) - Wilson Leite (BRA/Q/ATP 827) 6:3, 6:4

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Sparkassen Trophy: Top seeds Gaio and Kolar continue

As expected, the two top seeds Federico Gaio and Zdenek Kolar are in the quarter-finals of the Sparkassen Trophy. They prevailed in two sets each on Wednesday. The hot phase of the tournament begins on Thursday with a series of top-class matches.

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