Giulio Zeppieri assaulting Ben Shelton. The left-handed Roman is the only Italian to make it to the quarter-finals and tomorrow evening, not before 7.30 pm, he will play against the American, seed number 2 of the Cagliari Superchallenger.
Tomorrow's program begins at 11, on the central Tc Cagliari, with the match between the French Ugo Humbert, number 6 of the seeding, and the Japanese Taro Daniel. The transalpine took advantage of Andrea Pellegrino's retirement at 6-7(2), 6-1, 3-1 due to a discomfort in his lower back which progressively limited him, while the Asian surprised 6-2, 6- 3 the American Mackenzie McDonald, number 3 on the board.
Second match, not before 12, between the Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan (who beat 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 the number 1 seed, the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka who, nervous, in the final match split three rackets) and the Croatian Borna Gojo (6-4, 7-5 to another Japanese, Yosuke Watanuki).
Third match, the one between the number 4 of the seeding, the Serbian Laslo Djere (6-4, 6-2 over the Slovakian Jozef Kovalik) and the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (same result against Alessandro Giannessi).
In the evening, as mentioned, it will be Zeppieri-Shelton. The blue ruled 6-2, 6-0 Mattia Bellucci, while the American prevailed 6-4, 7-6(6) on the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan.
The semifinals of doubles with Andrea Vavassori as protagonist. Not before 16.30, the Turinese, paired with the Brazilian Marcelo Demoliner, will challenge the Argentines Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.

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