Seventh and penultimate day. With the entry of the big national teams onto the scene, the Italian championships are nearing their conclusion. Today the qualifying rounds and the round of 16 of the absolute singles. A day of exciting and spectacular encounters. Tomorrow we start with the quarterfinals, the finals from 2pm.
MEN'S SINGULAR
The favorites of the house are awaited, Carlo Rossi and Johnny Oyebode, who grew up in Marcozzi and today in Germany. In Italy they wear the colors of Marcozzi and TT Sassari respectively. Oyebode progresses to the main draw smoothly with three wins. Rossi wins just one game but that's enough to qualify for the round of 16. The challenge is expected in the quarterfinals, but Rossi gives in three sets to Matteo Mutti, number two in Italy. Oyebode has to work some overtime to deal with Vallino Costassa. Tomorrow the challenge with Mutti. Amato (Marcozzi) passes to the round of 16 with two victories, but he too loses in three sets to Leonardo Mutti. Cap (Norbello), Spaniard (Marcozzi) and Kuznetsov (Nulvi) leave the scene in the group stage. The other big names advance. By a twist of fate, Bobocica and Stojanov meet in the round of 16, one of the strongest players of the last five decades. The show ends in the fifth set with victory for Bobocica, current number one in Italy.
FEMALE SINGULAR
Veronica Mosconi, from Norbello, surprised everyone and won the group by beating the number one in Italy Tan Wenling and the number three Wang Xuelan. Tomorrow in the quarterfinals he finds another big name, Chiara Colantoni, formerly of Norbello. The trio of Muravera, Carnovale, Criscione and Bressan immediately leave the scene. Carnovale is in the group with Vivarelli and Stefanova, Criscione finds himself with Colantoni and Monfardini. The other athlete from Muravera, Valentina Roncallo is eliminated in the round of 16 by Gaia Monfardini after four hard-fought sets.
