PERTH (AUSTRALIA) (ITALPRESS) – Italy is outside the United Cup, a mixed team competition that inaugurated the new season of international tennis. Forced to beat France already eliminated 3-0 to hope to advance to the quarters as best second of the group of Perth, the blue team (inserted in group C and beat to the debut from Switzerland) must abandon all hope already to the first singular, with Flavio Cobolli surrendering for 6-7(4) 6-7(5) 7-5 to Arthur Rinderknech after more than three hours and 20 hours of play and above all Great consolation is Jasmine Paolini’s 6-2 6-2 victory over Leolia Jeanjean.
COCCIARETTO VINCE AD AUCKLAND
A good first for Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the “ASB Classic”, Wta 250 from 283.347 dollars that is disputed on the concrete of Auckland, in New Zealand. On the Italian night the 24-year-old of Fermo, number 81 Wta, won for 6-2 7-5, in just over an hour and a half, the American Alycia Parks, number 101 of the ranking, never faced before in career. For the Marche region, the third participation in the New Zealand tournament is the first win: in 2020 it had been beaten in three sets in the first round of the qualifyings by the Spanish Bolsova while in 2023 it had been stopped in the first round of the main board by the Russian Blinkova, always in three sets. Cocciaretto will play a place in the quarters with the Polish Magda Linette, number 52 of the ranking and fifth favorite seeding (followed by the compatriot Aga Radwanska), which exceeded in three sets (6-4 4-6 6-2) the intoxicable Venus Williams, number 582 Wta, which at 45 years and cool of marriage had asked and obtained a wild card. The 33-year-old of Poznan is ahead for 2-1 in the balance of direct comparisons with the blue and has set itself in the last two challenges, the most recent in the first round of the Wta 500 on the cement of Merida in February last year.
OK SONEGO AD HONG KONG
Lorenzo Sonego’s 2026 was a success, which surpassed the first round at the “Bank of China Tennis Open”, Atp 250 with a $700.045 prize pool, which was played on Hong Kong cement fields. The 30-year-old Turinese, number 39 of the ranking and fifth favorite seeding, last year stopped by Norrie in the eighth, exceeded for 6-2 7-6(4) the Japanese Rei Sakamoto, number 200 Atp. At the october of the final will face one between Francisco Comesana (number 66) and Juncheng Shang (former number 47 dropped due to physical problems at n.406).
The number one of seeding is Lorenzo Musetti, who for the third year in a row begins the season on Asian concrete (dwelve months ago he was stopped in the quarters by Munar): the 23-year-old of Carrara, number 7 of the ranking, will enter the competition directly to the second round against Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry, number 57 Atp, which exceeded for 6-4 7-5 the French Valentin Royer. It will be the third direct confrontation between the two, with Musetti always winner in the two disputes in 2025.
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