In the men’s field, the Romagna team beat Match Ball Firenze in the final. Among the women, confirmation of the Venetians: Palermo still defeated in the final
The Serie A1 tennis championships in Massa Lombarda and Verona. From the miracle of salvation in 2024, through the play-outs faced with a team decimated by injuries, up to the apotheosis, the Romagna players transformed the dream into reality at the Circolo della Stampa Sporting, at the end of an intense and pathos final against the Match Ball Firenze Country Club. Seven and a half hours of battle were needed to close the score: the point of the definitive 4-1 arrived in the double signed by Lorenzo Rottoli and Jacopo Bilardo, symbolic faces of the club’s youth sector. The Italian flag thus returns to Emilia-Romagna 14 years after the success of the Circolo del Castellazzo from Parma, in a jubilation shared with a hundred supporters and with the president Giorgio Errani (Sara’s father), who came to Turin to support a group with a surprisingly low average age (23 and a half years for the quartet lined up in the final), led on the bench by captain Michele Montalbini. In the roster of the new Italian champions, in addition to the aforementioned Rottoli and Bilardo, there are Giulio Zeppieri, Francesco Forti, Jacopo Vasamì, Peter Buldorini, Pietro Ricci, Alessio De Bernardis and the Slovakian Martin Klizan, absent in the Turin epilogue but used in the group stage.
women
—
In Turin, history repeated itself with regards to women. The Verona Falconeri Tennis Association in fact repeated the tricolor in 2024, while another bitter defeat in the final came for the Circolo Tennis Palermo, the third in a row among the women, the fourth if we also consider that of 2022 with the men’s team. For the Sicilian club, the championship finals increasingly resemble a curse; for the Venetian team, however, the confirmation of a winning tradition, sealed by the successes of Aurora Zantedeschi, Angelica Raggi, Angelica Moratelli and the Greek Valentini Grammatikopoulou. Absent in the 2024 final (the Spanish Eva Guerrero Alvarez, still in the squad, played in her place), the Hellenic tennis player was invaluable in this edition. At the Training Center of the Turin facility the verdict was even clearer than a year ago: singles were enough for the girls led by Santiago Messora and Claudio Gastoldi to make it 3-0 for Italy. AT Verona becomes the tenth club since 1940 – the year of birth of the women’s A1 – capable of winning at least two consecutive editions of the championship.