Nothing to do for Coach Vela Messina on the courts of league leaders Santa Margherita Ligure on the fifth and penultimate day of the regular season of the men’s A1 tennis championship.
The Peloritana team, which showed up for the match without foreign players and also without Giorgio Tabacco, who was in less than perfect physical condition, was overcome with the peremptory score of 6 to 0. All the matches ended in two sets; the most competitive was the one played by Fausto Tabacco against the strong Spanish Martinez. Tabacco manages, in several games, to keep up with his rival, but is more precise in the key moments of the match. The commendable commitment made by the young players Fabio Varsalona, Gabriele Bombara and Enrico Egitto was not enough to avoid defeats at the hands of Pellegrino, Romano and Castagnola.
In the other scheduled match, Sporting Club Sassuolo eliminated Junior Perugia with the same result, so next Sunday the boys led by Ciccio Caputo will have to beat Perugia at home and hope that Sassuolo does not win against Santa Margherita Ligure, already mathematically qualified for the championship playoffs, to achieve second place, which is worth the coveted direct salvation.
Santa Margherita Ligure-Ct Vela 6-0: Pellegrino-Varsalona 6-1, 6-2; Romano-Bombara 6-1, 6-3; Martinez-F. Tobacco 6-3, 6-4; Castagnola-Egypt 6-4, 6-2; Pellegrino/Nosei-Varsalona/Egypt 6-3, 6-2; Romano-Castagnola/F. Tabacco-Bombara 6-2, 6-2.
Matchday 5 results: Santa Margherita Ligure-Ct Vela Messina 6-0; Sc Sassuolo-Junior Perugia 6-0.
Ranking: Santa Margherita Ligure 13; Sc Sassuolo 7; Coach Vela Messina 5; Junior Perugia 3.
