Todi (PG) - 
Tournament combined (ATP Challenger men's and women's ITF) scheduled from June 29 to July 7 at the Tennis Club Todi 1971.
In just over two weeks Todi Tennis Club will unveil its jewel. The only international tournament Italian to combine in the same week a test of the circuit to a step ITF Challenger male female, all from June 29 to July 7. The weekend will be reserved for qualifications (to 32 participants for both tests), while Monday, July 1 will trigger the main boards. To know the names of the stars of the women's tournament (organized for the fourth year in a row) will have to wait a few more days, and was announced the list of the Challenger male, with 30,000 Euros in prize money. The player most expected at the starting number seven is Paolo Lorenzi edition, number 71 of the ATP rankings and the top seed of the event. The Siena will return to Umbria for groped to take the title but lost in the final of 2012, when he was forced to withdraw due to an inflammation of the Achilles tendon, leaving the success of the young Russian Andrey Kuznetsov. But if he wants to get to the bottom, Lorenzi will first have to contend with at least a quartet of possible protagonists, led by Colombian Santiago Giraldo. A career that boasts eight titles in Challenger level and so many places in the major circuit, and that less than twelve months ago was in the top 40 in the world. Then he slightly lost ground, but has all the credentials to back up and not be ruled out that its restart can take right from the clay of Todi. With him, the Argentine Martin Alund semi-finalists this year's ATP 250 St. Paul's (where a set off Rafael Nadal), the Portuguese Joao Sousa and our Potito Starace, the second jewel in the crown of a patrol which also includes blue Gianluca Naso, Alessio Di Mauro and Alessandro Giannessi. Starace, 31, of Cervinara, is improving after a difficult 2012, and is slowly regaining the court that in 2007 allowed him to go up to number 27 in the world rankings. Do not underestimate, then, the possible couplings that take place through the four wild card. The attention of the organizers is aimed primarily at Wimbledon, with the aim of capturing other samples to take Todi after deleting the meadows Londoners.
ENTRY LIST IN June 13
Paolo Lorenzi (Ita, 71), Santiago Giraldo (Col, 95), Martin Alund (Arg, 101), Joao Sousa (Por, 103), Pere Riba (Esp, 126), James Duckworth (Aus, 169), Andrej Martin (Svk, 170), Renzo Olivo (Arg, 194), Gianluca Naso (Ita, 201), Potito Starace (Ita, 203), Arthur De Greef (Bel, 211), Marco Trungelliti (Arg, 216), Jozef Kovalik ( svk, 230), Boy Westerhof (Ned, 235), Alessio Di Mauro (Ita, 236), Taro Daniel (Jpn, 244), Pedro Sousa (Por, 248), Marc Giner (Esp, 251), Gerard Granollers (Esp , 252), Jose Checa-Calvo (Esp, 260), Lucas Pouille (Fra, 261), Alessandro Giannessi (Ita, 262).
