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Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, another heart-stopping comeback

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Two days after regaining a one-set disadvantage to Sriram Balaji and Neil Oberleitner, Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori repeated in the quarterfinals of the Dubai ATP tournament, overcoming Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl in a super tie-break, won not without difficulty. The two Azzurri thus clinched a place in the semifinals, where they will face on Friday Salvadoran Marcelo Arevalo and Croatian Mate Pavic, both veterans of the professional circuit.

Against the two Czech tennis players, Bolelli and Vavassori lost a very balanced first fraction (no break until 6-6), recovered an early double disadvantage in the tie-break but at 4-4 suffered a three-point-zero partial break that put the opposing pair ahead. Decidedly more favorable the’trend of the second set, balanced this time until 2-2 before Bolelli and Vavassori take off winning four consecutive games to play it all out in the super tie-break.

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In the final game, whose goal is to get to ten first, it is back-and-forth until 6-6 between the two doubles: from there, however, comes a partial four points to two for Bolelli and Vavassori, who thus complete the comeback and qualify for the semifinals of the Dubai tournament, an ATP 500 that Bolelli won on one’other occasion with another doubles partner, Andreas Seppi, in 2016.

Bolelli and Vavassori are looking, in the UAE, for their ninth victory as a pair on the major circuit: they have already won a tournament in 2026, confirming themselves as champions in Rotterdam in the final last Feb. 12 against Taiwanese Ray Ho and German Hendrik Jebens, a match that ended with a score of 6-3, 6-4.

Previously, the two Azzurri won in Buenos Aires, Halle and Beijing in 2024 and Adelaide, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Washington in 2025. Also not to be forgotten is the presence of the two in the Italian team that last November confirmed victory in the Davis Cup for the third consecutive year, although the doubles was not played in either the quarterfinals against Austria, the semifinals against Belgium or the finals against Spain.

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