FIP Rise Rocks Lane, Italy celebrates again with Abbate and Graziotti

For Italians Flavio Abbate and Giulio Graziotti it was an unforgettable month of March. After the victory in the FIP Rise in Kaunas (Lithuania), here is the one in the FIP Rise Rocks Lane in London, with the Azzurri defeating Sweden’s Simon Vasquez and Spain’s Alvaro Montiel Caruso (4) in the final with a score of 6-2 6-3. Abbate and Graziotti, on the same day, had also qualified for the final by defeating (6-1 6-3) José Luis Gonzalez and Antonio Luque, the number 1 seed and players with the highest FIP ranking among those present in the UK.

“We won a tournament where we started off not so well and we raised our level match after match, always remaining united even in really difficult situations – said Abbate –. Everything we are doing is bringing results: let’s continue like this and we will see good things”. “There are no words to describe this moment – added Graziotti –. A week to be framed: thank you Flavio, your will to fight on all points is incredible, but now we have to move on and you know it well”.

In the women’s draw, on the other hand, the title went to Ana Varo and Lorena Alonso De Lera, who started as the number 2 pair on the entry list and won both the semifinal and the final in three sets. Two marathons, the second of which was decisive for the trophy against Natividad Lopez Diaz and Laura Lujan: having lost the tiebreak in the first set, Varo and Alonso De Lera gave up only five games to their opponents, closing 6-7 6-3 6-2.