In the first round of the men’s singles at Roland Garros, nice win for Matto Gigante, world number 167, who in a match between two tennis players from the qualifiers dominated with a score of 6-4 6-2 6-0 the Lebanese number 221 Benjamin Hassan.

Only the first set was quite mvimented: Gigante, making his overall debut in the main draw in Paris, from 2-2 went ahead 5-2 with a double break, however, he had one of the two break leads recovered by missing a set point, on 5-3 he missed two more set points but finally on 5-4 he held serve at zero.

The 23-year-old from Rome misses two break points already in the first game of the second set but in the third he breaks Hassan’s serve, he also has two double break points at 4-1 but the second break comes at 4-2 and shortly afterwards the second set is also in the bag.

The third set is a monologue of Gigante, who has to save only one break point in the second game but from 2-0 in his favor 30-15 service Hassan wins the last 15 points of the match and will now face the winner between Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas.

At Stadio Giovanni Zini, Cremonese overturned the 2-1 loss in the first leg by beating Juve Stabia 3-0 and qualified for the final of the Serie B playoffs.

The Grigiorossi took the lead in the 28th minute: Barbieri took advantage of a misunderstanding by the Campani and went toward the opponent&#8217s penalty area, then provided an assist to Castagnetti, who first-intentionally with his left beat Thiam.

In the second half, in the 60th minute the hosts doubled by scoring the decisive goal for qualification: a minute earlier Andreoni was sent off with the help of VAR for a last man’s hand foul, on the free kick Vandeputte serves Johnsen who with the right fulminates Thiam.

In the 67th minute the final seal: Vasquez for Vandeputte who with his left fires Thiam in the first post. Cremonese now awaits the winner of the other semifinal between Spezia and Catanzaro to play for a place in Serie A.

The second week of the Giro d’Italia 108 closes in the best way for Lidl-Trek, which, the day after losing Giulio Ciccone, wins the Fiume Veneto-Asiago with Carlos Verona. The sixth success in fifteen stages for the U.S. team came on the ramps of the Dori GPM, where the Spaniard stretched from the breakaway group he was part of.

Filippo Zana and Gianmarco Garofoli tried to close the gap, but they also had to surrender to the return of the rest of the companions d’adventure, with Florian Stork taking second place over Christian Scaroni. The Maglia Rosa group finished 29″ but without Primož Roglič. The winner of the Giro d’Italia 2023 was unable to react to numerous sprints, particularly those brought by Egan Bernal and Richard Carapaz, losing 1’30”.

No problems instead for Isaac Del Toro, always ready to respond to rivals’ attacks, crowning a week lived in the Maglia Rosa with authority. After the second rest day, the Mexican will restart with 1’20” on Simon Yates and 1’26” on Juan Ayuso, in a top five completed by Carapaz and Canadian Derek Gee. Roglič slips to 10th place, 3’53” from the Maglia Rosa.

These are the words of Carlos Verona: “I am very excited because this sport is unique and knows how to turn disappointments into joys in a short time. I won in front of my family, after a day that had been very bitter for the whole team. I want to dedicate the victory to Giulio Ciccone, who had worked so hard for this Giro and who had to abandon it right on the eve of the week that would have seen him in the lead.”

“This team is like a second family, we are very close and we have a unique leader like Mads Pedersen who always spurs us on to improve. Today was my day. I was doing well on Monte Grappa and was able to get into the decisive action’it was a good day. The finish was suited to my characteristics as a cross-country rider, although I feared the comeback of the Maglia Rosa” group.

Here instead are the words of Maglia Rosa Isaac Del Toro: “The leadership in the team is not yet well defined. Me, Ayuso and Adam Yates are strong, we will see how we manage the third week. I have the Maglia Rosa but things can change. I race against my idols, and in a few years I find myself having to follow their attacks. Ineos is interpreting the race very aggressively, I imagined they would try on Monte Grappa and so I stuck to their wheels. I am happy that I managed to stay with Bernal” all the time.