Tennis, Wimbledon: debut on the Center for Sinner

Jannik Sinner will have the honor of making his debut on Center Court next Monday at Wimbledon. The organizers of the third Grand Slam tournament have in fact decided to place the challenge between the South Tyrolean, top seed no. 8, and the Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo, n. 110 Atp, as the third meeting, to close the program. As a guideline, the match will start around 7 pm Italian time. The program, as usual, will be opened by the outgoing champion, the n. 2 of the world Novak Djokovic, who will begin the run-up to the eighth title (fifth in a row), crossing the racket with another Argentine, Pedro Cachin, n. 67. Next up will be another legend of the tournament, the 43-year-old and 5-time US champion Venus Williams, dropped to no. 554 Wta, which in what is her 24th participation, will have to deal with a very difficult customer, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, n. 75, fresh from the quarterfinals at Roland Garros.

Musetti, Trevisan, Cocciaretto and Stefanini are also on the field on Monday

On Monday, another 4 Italians will make their debut: the first to take the field (12 Italian time) will be Lorenzo Musetti, seed no. 14, who will face the Peruvian on field 14 Juan Pablo Varillas, n. 60, author of a surprising Roland Garros (beaten by Djokovic in the round of 16) but making his absolute debut on grass. Later, at about 2.45 pm, it will be the turn of Martina Trevisan, n. 64, who will face the Spanish Sara Sorribes Tormo, n. 84 with which she has lost twice out of two. Finally, around 19.15, they will take to the field almost simultaneously, Elizabeth Cocciaretto (no. 43), on field no. 7, to challenge the Colombian Camila Osorio (n. 71), already beaten in three sets in the only previous one, in Tampico, Mexico, and Lucrezia Stefanini (n. 111), fresh from splendid qualifications, which will close the program on field n. 15 contesting the passage of the round to the Estonian Anett Kontaveit, n. 81, who boasts a title (‘s-Hertogenbosch 2017) and a final (Eastbourne 2021) on grass.

Bad Homburg, Bronzetti surrenders in the final to Siniakova

And speaking of endings that of Bad Homburg was found to be indigestible a Lucia Bronzetti which at the end of a challenge disturbed for a long time by the rain, had to surrender to the Czech Katerina Sinyakova, n. 52, which won 6-2, 7-6(5). The 24-year-old from Rimini, who was in her third career final after Palermo 2022 and Rabat at the end of May (where she won her first WTA trophy), and who had never gone so far on grass, consoles herself with the best ranking: will rise from 65th to 47th place. In Eastbourne, however, the two titles went to Francisco Cerundolo it’s at Madison Keys. The 4th seeded Argentinian defeated in the final Tommy Paul, second strength of the seeding, with the score of 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. The American, number 25 in the world, repeated her 2022 success by beating the Russian in the final Daria Kasatkina, number 11 WTA, with the score of 6-2, 7-6 (15/13). Finally, the Majorca tournament saw the triumph of the American Christopher Eubanks who defeated the French in the final Adrian Mannarinoseeded number 4, with the score 6-1 6-4