Day 2: feat of Bautista and Guerrero

On the day 2 of the BNL Italy Major Premier Padel, the feat came late in the evening. Jairo Bautista, number 40 in the FIP ranking, and Francisco Guerrero, number 51, defeated Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz, the number 9 seed and coming from the title in Bordeaux. The other top seeds in the men’s draw won their opening match: Lucas Bergamini/Victor Ruiz (10), Lucho Capra/Alex Chozas (12), Javi Rico/Juanlu Esbri (16), Javi Ruiz/Pablo Cardona (15), on a Tuesday that also saw the debut of the first round matches in the women’s draw.

 MEN Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz, number 9 in the seeding, paid for the big night of Jairo Bautista and Francisco Guerrero, victorious 7-6 6-7 7-5 at the end of a match that lasted three hours and eight minutes. In the day’s other matches, Lucas Bergamini and Victor Ruiz, seeded number 10, gave up just three games (6-2 6-1) to Spaniards Jose Roman Martinez Sanchis and Pablo Castillo Valverde, who had come from the qualifiers, while Javi Rico and Juanlu Esbri (16) defeated Argentinian pair Juan Cruz Belluati and Miguel Lamperti in two sets: 6-4 7-5 the score in one hour and 35’. Two other Argentinian players, Lucho Capra and Alex Chozas (12), needed three sets to defeat Aris Patiniotis and Facundo Dominguez: 6-1 3-6 6-4 the final score in one hour and 54 minutes. Straight set win for Javi Ruiz and Pablo Cardona, who had the better 6-4 6-3 against ‘Pincho’ Fernandez and José Jimenez in one hour and 15 minutes. 

WOMEN Italy’s Giorgia Marchetti, paired with France’s Lea Godallier, defeated Alicia Blanco Rojo and Italy’s Lorena Vano in three sets – 5-7 6-3 6-1 – in 2 hours and 28’.