Verena Hofer wins double ITF tournament in Trieste

Hofer reached the final of an ITF tournament in Trieste for the fifth time in her career. And she celebrated her fourth victory today, after Santa Margherita di Pula in Sardinia in 2014 and Hammamet in October 2016 and May this year. Hofer/Viviani started the match strongly today and secured the first set with 27:6 points after just 3 minutes, after two breaks in the sixth and eighth games. The second half of the game was much more exciting, where Marcionni/Scotti were ahead 4-2, but then Hofer/Viviani were able to equalize to make it 4-4. When the score was 5:5, the Val Gardena woman and the Lombard woman took the serve from their opponents again and finally used their first match point to make the final score 7:5.

Hofer was previously eliminated in the quarter-finals of the individual competition today. The number 3 seed from Val Gardena had to admit defeat to Martina Spigarelli 1:38(6), 7:2 after 2:6 hours. After a very even first set that lasted over an hour, Hofer collapsed in the second round.

Winkler misses his first ITF semi-final Georg Winkler also narrowly missed out on making it into his first ITF semi-final today at the $15.000 ITF tournament in Monastir. The 21-year-old from Völs, who previously eliminated his Rungger teammates Moritz Trocker and Joy Vigani, narrowly lost against Juan Manuel Benitez Chavariagga after 2:45 hours of play in three sets 6:7(6), 6:0, 6: 4 out. The Colombian, seeded number 2, got off to a better start and took the lead 5-1. But Winkler reacted promptly, equalized to 5:5 and even had three set points in the tiebreak at 6:3, but couldn't use them and lost 6:8. After that, the Völser played big, won the second half of the game 6-0 and took the lead 3-1 in the third set. But Benitez Chavariagga came back, played four games in a row to make it 5:3 and finally won 6:4. Vigani in the doubles final in Monastir But there was still a sense of success from a South Tyrolean perspective in Monastir today. Namely in doubles, where Joy Vigani from Brixen and the Spaniard Jorde Blanco Guadalupe won the semi-final against the Briton Luke Johnson and the German Christian Serphim with 3:6, 6:2 and 10:4 in the match tiebreak. Tomorrow Vigani/Blanco Guadalupe will meet the top seeds Alexander Merino (PER)/Christoph Negritu (GER) in the final at 13 p.m. For Vigani it is the second doubles final on the ITF tour; he lost his first final in April this year in Sharm El Sheikh with the German Christian Hirschmüller against the British-American duo Evan Hoyt/Dusty Boyer.

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Verena Hofer wins double ITF tournament in Trieste

Verena Hofer celebrated her fourth doubles triumph on the ITF tour on Friday at the $15.000 tournament in Trieste. The 21-year-old from Ortisei won the final with Maria Vittoria Viviani from Lodi against Sara Marcionni/Maria Aurelia Scotti 1:15 and 6:3 after 7:5 hours of play.

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