Three sets, more than an hour and a half of battle, and lots of emotions. Here’s the summary of the match that had the Sicilian Flavio Abbate as one of the main players, paired with Manuel Castaño, against Marc Sintes and Dani Santigosa. It was a balanced match, won by the Spanish team 4-6 6-3 6-2, which lit up the morning at the Allianz Cloud and left good feelings for the “son of the island,” who will play in two weeks at the FIP Euro Padel Cup: “Playing in Milan is always wonderful and the European Championship will be a dream, I can’t wait to live this experience,” said Flavio after the match, looking ahead. After all, there couldn’t be a better chance to wear the Italian National Team jersey: “I’m proud to represent Italy in such an important competition, I’m sure it will be full of emotions.”
The event is scheduled from October 21 to 25 in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), where Lorenzo Di Giovanni and Simone Cremona will also wear blue. They were defeated 6-3 6-2 by last year’s revelation, Rama Valenzuela with Fede Mouriño. In the morning, Facundo Domínguez – paired with Javi Martínez – also won the Italian derby against Marco Cassetta – paired with Federico Chiostri – in an exciting match that kept the Allianz Cloud crowd on edge for 2 hours and 41 minutes and ended 6-7 6-3 7-6. Also noteworthy was the withdrawal of Aris Patiniotis and Jesús Moya against the pair José Jiménez–Maxi Sánchez, and the defeat of Riccardo Sinicropi and Alfonso Sanchez against Abud-Mendez.