The lights will turn on at 9 in the morning at Allianz Cloud, with a beautiful view. After the qualifying rounds played at Lorenteggio 1947, starting from Monday morning 190 countries worldwide will get connected to the Milan Premier Padel P1 show. From now on, all will take place in the dream theater, which will host the first 12 matches of the main draw, six on the Central court, in the heart of the Allianz CLoud, and six on court number 1. Meanwhile, the strongest players in the world will be crossing the planet and arriving in Italy from Mexico, where the Monterrey Major is about to end.
No Italian derby is scheduled in the first-day timetable of Premier P1 in Milan, the last stage of the season for the circuit headed by the International Padel Federation (FIP) and supported by the Professional Padel Association (PPA), the professional player representing body, and by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI). The most expected match for the Italian fans – Lorenzo Di Giovanni and Daniele Cattaneo against Marco Cassetta and Simone Cremona – will be played on Tuesday. It will be quite an exciting day, as the first tournament round will finish and the second one will start.
HERE IS MOURIÑO Marcelo Capitani’s dream of getting to the Main Draw at the Allianz Cloud faded away in the second qualifying round. The 47-year-old Italian-Argentine, who has lived in Italy for years as one of the most appreciated padel pioneers – as well as one of the most famous masters in the country – was paired with the 17-year-old Eneko Ochoa De Alba. They lost 6-1 5-7 6-4 against the Spanish Roger Aromi and the Frenchman Jeremy Scatena, one of the two non-Spanish players to gain the access to the main draw out of the 16 who made it. The other comes from Argentina and has an incredibly familiar surname linked to the “Nerazzurri” Internazionale of football and currently to AS Roma. Federico Mouriño, the Argentinian guy born in 1999, paired with the Spanish player Victor Manuel Mena Gil defeated 7-6 6-1 Manuel Rocafort Lores and Gonzalo Perez Arbona.
ITALIANS
Waiting for the derby, five “Azzurri” will be under the spotlight in the first day of the Milan Premier Padel P1. Facundo Dominguez and the French Benjamin Tison will play the third match on the Central court against the Spanish qualifiers Mario Ortega and Carlos Martì Vaño. Aris Patiniotis, who plays with Cristian German Gutierrez, will find José Luis Gonzalez and Miguel Angel Garcia. Nicolas Suescun, paired with Aday Santana, will face Eduardo Alonso Chillaron and Juan Luis Esbri Gonzalez. The wild card Riccardo Sinicropi and the French Maxime Moreau will close the program on the Central court against Javier Gonzalez Barrahona and Javier Garcia Mora. There is another Italian kid in town: Emiliano Iriart, paired with the Spanish Marcos Cordoba, took advantage of the forfait of José Rico and the Kuwaiti Abdulaziz M.Redha entering the draw as a lucky loser. They will play against the other brother Rico, Javier, and another Kuwaiti, Abdulrahman Alawadhi.