FIP Promotion Città dei Templi, Italian Abbate plays at home

Flavio Abbate will be the most awaited player on court in the FIP Promotion Città dei Templi, a stage of the CUPRA FIP Tour scheduled for the weekend in Agrigento, Sicily, a southern Italian region. Abbate, who was born in Sicily (in Siracusa), will play as usual paired with Giulio Graziotti: the Azzurri are the top seed in a 27-pair men’s draw, in which the number 2 players are Qatari Jabor Al-Mutawa and Abdulla Alhijji.

It’s Portuguese, on the other hand, the pair who lead the entry list of the women’s draw: number 1 seed Margarida Fernandes (number 108 in the FIP ranking) and Catarina Santos Domingos (110). At the TC Città dei Templi the first matches of the main draw are scheduled on Friday; round of 16 and quarter-finals on Saturday, semi-finals and finals on Sunday.