There are four Italian tennis players who will play the round of 16 of the ATP 175 which is taking place on the clay courts of the Tc Cagliari.
Mattia Bellucci and Giulio Zeppieri, who will meet tomorrow morning, were joined by Andrea Pellegrino (who will play against the Frenchman Hugo Umbert, seeded number 6) and Alessandro Giannessi (opposite Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis).
Pellegrino, in the draw as a lucky loser after losing in the last round of qualifying, beat Francesco Maestrelli 7-6(7), 6-4, a tough opponent, good at hoisting himself up 4-1 both in the first and in the second set , but then missed the knockout blow.
Giannessi fought for over three hours to get the better of Francesco Passaro: 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-4 the result, with his opponent who, in the tiebreak of the second set, failed to score two match points on the 6-4 and another on 7-6.
Defeats for Flavio Cobolli (5-7, 6-1, 6-2 against the Colombian Daniel Elahi), Stefano Travaglia (6-3, 6-7, 6-4 against the Croatian Borna Gojo) and Luca Nardi in the evening match ( 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 by the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan).
Today the top four seeds will take to the field for the first time: Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, Americans Ben Sheltone Mackenzie McDonald and Serbian Laslo Djere.

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