Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori return to smiles in Cincinnati

After the elimination at the first hurdle in Toronto, which was the counterpart to the success in Washington, Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori got back on track in Cincinnati, overcoming the first round of the doubles match draw: the Italian pair got the better of the U.S. Nathaniel Lammons and the Dutch David Pel, winning with a double 6-4 in one hour and twenty minutes of play.

The Italian pair got the better of the U.S. Nathaniel Lammons and the Dutch David Pel, winning with a double 6-4 in one hour and twenty minutes of play.

Somewhat similar was the trend in both fractions: in the first set, Bolelli and Vavassori placed the break, which later proved decisive, in the fifth game, while in the second set they had to wait until the seventh game to gain the advantage that the opposing pair was no longer able to regain until the end.

The names of the next opponents, who will contend Bolelli and Vavassori for a place among the best eight pairs entered in the competition, are already known: they are the Americans Robert Cash and James Tracy, who in their first-round match overcame the pair formed by Spain’s Pedro Martinez and Norway’s Casper Ruud by closing on 6-4, 4-6, 10-5.

The setback in Toronto against Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni is thus put behind them.

Bolelli and Vavassori have every intention of replicating on the Cincinnati concrete what they did in Washington, where after beating Hugo Nys of Monaco and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France in the final they won the tournament in the U.S. capital.