San Marino Open Internationals with eight Italians

San Marino Open Internationals, Scoreboard

The Titan reopens its doors to great tennis. With the draw of the qualifying and main draw officially kicks off the 29th edition of the Internazionali San Marino Open, an ATP Challenger Tour event (€ 67,960 prize money) that kicks off on Sunday, August 7 on the courts of the Centro Tennis Cassa di Risparmio di Montecchio with the first twelve qualifying matches (free admission, start set at 10 am by supervisor Carmelo Di Dio, referee Riccardo Ragazzini), while the decisive round will then take place on Monday (from 1 pm) before the start of the main draw.

Pending the outcome of the qualifiers, there are eight Italian players at the start of the main draw (four of whom are included in the seeding), with Lady Luck having fun to immediately propose two tricolor derbies. One will feature Marco Cecchinato himself, fifth seed and in San Marino winner in 2013 of the first major title of a career that has seen him reach a historic semifinal at Roland Garros 2018, put three ATP trophies on clay and reach a world No. 16 best ranking, and 21-year-old left-hander Mattia Bellucci, competing with a wild card.