ATP Finals, doubles: Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in semifinals with an early match

Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori are already certain of a place in the semifinals of the doubles tournament at the ATP Finals in Turin: the two Italians defeated in two sets the Spaniard Marcel Granollers and the Argentine Horacio Zeballos on the second day of the round dedicated to Peter Fleming, thus securing their passage to the round with a match d’advance.

Bolelli and Vavassori, who in the first match had beaten Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, both from Great Britain, had no easy time against the two Spanish-speaking tennis players: already in the first set, in fact, they had to cancel as many as five break points in total, first at 4-4 and then at 5-5, before taking the fraction to the tie-break where they won 7-4.

The sprightly start at the beginning of the second set, with the two Italians immediately ahead 2-0, then did the rest: from there on neither pair lost a game on their own serve and that was enough for Bolelli and Vavassori to secure the success with the final score of 7-6(4), 6-4 in one’hour and thirty-six minutes of play.

The two pairs had to cancel five break points in total, first 4-4, and then 4-5, before taking the fraction by 7-4.

Only one match remains now in the round, which should not be underestimated, however, since it could be important for the conquest of the first place: the opponents of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori will be the Germans Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz, who in their first match of the round had lost precisely against Granollers and Zeballos.