8 Dec. – Fifty-five minutes yesterday, 54 today. In less than two hours overall, Alejandro Galan and Juan Lebron got to the quarterfinals of the Milan Premier Padel P1. In an Allianz Cloud which is getting closer and closer to the sold out (for semifinals and final there are only a few dozen tickets left), the seeded number 1 couple defeated 6-2 6-4 the Spanish compatriots Raul Marcos and Ivan Ramirez. Milan has already fallen in love with the creative way to padel of Galan and Lebron: the crowd will be able to lovely admire them again tomorrow, in the quarterfinals day. The Spanish duo will open – as it was yesterday and today – the afternoon session, which will start at 5 pm. They will play against Momo Gonzalez and Alex Ruiz, seeded n. 6 in the Premier Padel P1 tournament that is about to close the season of the circuit.
The bar will inevitably be higher for Ale and Juan: who knows if the three-time champions this season (they won in Roma, Paris, and Madrid) will be able to go beyond Friday, a goal they failed a week ago in Mexico. Before Galan and Lebron, Maxi Sanchez and Luciano Capra had also won their match: the Argentine team, at the end of a three-set battle that lasted two hours and 2 mins, won in three sets (6-3 6-7 6-3) against Mena and Mouriño, who concluded an exciting adventure that began in the qualification round. For Sanchez/Capra, in the quarterfinals, there are Ruiz/Bergamini, who had eliminated Stupaczuk/Lima in the morning. The seeded number 3 couple was not physically at its best. Finally, the adventure of the Italo-Argentine Facundo Dominguez ended in the last 16 rounds. He was paired with the Frenchman Benjamin Tison and lost 1-6 6-3 6-4 on court number 1 against the Spaniards Sanchez and Semmler, who had taken advantage in the second round from the forfeit of Di Nenno and Nieto.
Galan-Lebron, what a show! 6-2 6-4 to Marcos/Ramirez in less than an hour. Tomorrow in the quarterfinals, the n.1 couple against Gonzalez/Ruiz
