Matteo Gigante, world number 164, didn’t make it against the emerging Czech Jakub Mensik, number 21, who in the second round of the men’s singles at the Internazionali d’Italia beat him with a score of 7-6 7-5 in just over an ira and 40 minutes of play.

Two evenly matched sets in which there was only one break, the one on 5-5 in the second set in favor of Mensik, and only two other break points, saved by Gigante, who on 3-3 also in the second set had found himself down 15-40.

The situation was repeated four games later and this time Gigante had to surrender at the second opportunity for Mensik, who won the first set tie-break 7-4 by stringing five consecutive points from 4-2 in favor of the 23-year-old Roman.

At the Castellani Stadium the Saturday night match of the thirty-sixth day of Serie A between Empoli and Parma will be played at 8:45 pm.

Between the Tuscans Henderson and Grassi return from disqualification, however, Colombo will not be there for the same reason. Maleh, Kouamé, Sazonov, Zurkowski, Haas and Pellegri are unavailable. Cacace favored in the runoff with Solbakken.

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Among the Ducals, to be evaluated Mihaila, Vogliacco and Bernabé recovered instead Almqvist. Unavailable Charpentier, Kowalski, Osorio, Estevez and Cancellieri.

The probable lineups

EMPOLI (3-4-2-1): Vasquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, Viti; Gyasi, Grassi, Henderson, Pezzella; Fazzini; Cacace, Esposito. All. D’Aversa.

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PARMA (3-5-2): Suzuki; Delprato, Leoni, Valenti; Hainaut, Hernani, Keita, Sohm, Valeri; Pellegrino, Bonny. All. Chivu.

Beautiful victory of Jasmine Paolini, who for the first time in her career reaches the round of 16 of the Internazionali d’Italia at the Foro Italico in Rome, beating with the score of 6-4 6-3 the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, a noble decadent and currently number 36 in the world, in less than an ira and a quarter of play.

There were as many as five breaks, out of ten games, in the first set. The first to stretch to 2-0 is Jasmine, who then immediately gets her break back. The No. 5 WTA ranking takes the lead again in the sixth gane and flies 5-2, on 5-3 she serves for the set but returns the break but then breaks Ons for the third time and closes on the first set point.

The second set is very close.

The second set is much more straightforward: Jasmine does not exploit a break point on 2-1 but from 3-3 she takes the match home by winning the last three games to zero: twelve points in a row! Now the 29-year-old from Tuscany will meet a real loose cannon, Latvian 2017 Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko.

“I’m so happy, I’m finally in the round of 16 here. You have to get used to so much cheering and crowd. I am happy with how I handled the match – said Jasmine at the end of the match -Now I will try my best and I hope the audience will help me. Thank you very much Rome, you are fantastic”.