ATP Hamburg, skips derby between Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Sonego

Lorenzo Sonego raises white flag

Tuesday at the Hamburg ATP was supposed to open with a very tasty tricolor derby between Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Sonego, but just before the match the organizers of the tournament in the Hanseatic city made official Sonego’s forfeit: to face Darderi there will be the "lucky loser" Nick Hardt, Dominican, no.191 ATP.

For Sonego, therefore, an unlucky period continues: this season, the current No. 52 in the world rankings has not yet managed to get into gear, and this season he has not yet managed to go beyond the second round of a tournament, if we exclude a Challenger in Turin, Italy, in mid-May, in which he è reached the semifinals.

Darderià will therefore play against the Dominican Hardt the qualification to the second round of the Hamburg tournament, the first on clay after the parenthesis on the grass that the number 35 ATP experienced between Halle, Mallorca and Wimbledon, reaching the second round in the London tournament (who eliminated him è was Lorenzo Musetti, in five sets).

For the Villa Gesell native, among other things, these days è came a great personal satisfaction, the summons for the Davis Cup by captain Filippo Volandri: together with him, in the group stage that will take place in September, there will be Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Musetti, Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli.