Tokyo 2020, tennis: Fognini and Giorgi in the round of 16

Fabio Fognini and Camila Giorgi advance to the round of 16 in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic tennis tournament. In the men’s field, the 34-year-old Fognini, number 31 in the ATP ranking and seeded number 15 in the Games draw, defeated the Belarusian Egor Gerasimov by 6- 4, 7-6 (7-4). In the second round, Fognini will find the winner of the match between the Russian Daniil Medvedev, n.2 in the ranking and seeding, and the Indian Sumit Nagal, n.160 Atp. Among the women, the blue Giorgi, n.61 in the WTA ranking, dominated the match with the Russian Elena Vesnina, currently number 303 in the world: 6-3, 6-1 the score in favor of the Marche in an hour and 24 minutes of play. The next obstacle for the blue number one will be the winner of the match between the Czech Karolina Pliskova, n.7 in the ranking and 5 in the seeding, and the Spanish Carla Suarez Navarro, n.205 Wta.