Interesting stuff is already happening at the new ATP250 that will be staged in Sardinia next week. Diego Schwartzman was leading the entry list in Italy, but as forecasted, he decided to withdraw ahead of his French Open semifinal against Rafael Nadal and Fabio Fognini will be in as an “emergency substitution.”
EMERGENCY SUBSTITUTION: Fabio Fognini in
Fabio Fognini will now be part of the event because of a rare clause that allows players that didn’t submit the entry before the required deadline. This rule applies only for ATP250 tournaments and if the following conditions are met:
i. Two (2) of the tournament’s top four (4) seeds withdraw; and
ii. One (1) of the withdrawals involves the first or second seeded player; and
iii. The substitute player (1) will become one of the tournament’s top two (2) seeds.
The revised entry list
Fabio will be in the good company of some other Italians. In fact, Gianluca Mager, Stefano Travaglia and Salvatore Caruso are already part of the entry list. Recently, they have been joined by Marco Cecchinato and Lorenzo Musetti as both managed to get a wild card.
This will be the revised entry list
1 Fabio Fognini (Diego Schwartzman)
2 Dusan Lajovic
3 Casper Ruud
4 Guido Pella
5 Albert Ramos-Vinolas
6 Lorenzo Sonego
7 Pablo Andujar
8 Tommy Paul
Pablo Cuevas
Frances Tiafoe
Jiri Vesely
Juan Ignacio Londero
Corentin Moutet
Laslo Djere
Stefano Travaglia
Federico Delbonis
Thiago Monteiro
Salvatore Caruso
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Gianluca Mager
Dennis Novak
(WC) Marco Cecchinato
(WC) Lorenzo Musetti
These are the alternates
Andreas Seppi
Kamil Majchrzak
Roberto Carballes Baena
Yannick Hanfmann
Andrej Martin
Federico Coria
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Alexei Popyrin
Marco Cecchinato
Damir Dzumhur
Taro Daniel
Marc Polmans
Leonardo Mayer
Jozef Kovalik
Jason Jung
Antoine Hoang
Sumit Nagal
Peter Gojowczyk
Ivo Karlovic
Bradley Klahn
Schwartzman at the French Open, ranking, and results in 2020
At the moment ranked no.14, Diego has a 20-9 win-loss record in 2020. Schwartzman is now playing at the French Open where he conquered Miomir Kecmanovic 6-0 6-1 6-3, Lorenzo Giustino 6-1 7-5 6-0, Norbert Gombos 7-63 6-3 6-3, Lorenzo Sonego 6-1 6-3 6-4 and Dominic Thiem 7-61 5-7 6-76 7-65 6-2.
Diego got to the final in Cordoba and in Rome.
Nadal at the French Open, ranking, and results in 2020
Currently ranked no.2, Nadal has a 20-4 win-loss record in 2020. The Spaniard is now competing at the French Open where he beat Egor Gerasimov 6-4 6-4 6-2, Mackenzie Mcdonald 6-1 6-0 6-3, Stefano Travaglia 6-1 6-4 6-0, Sebastian Korda 6-1 6-1 6-2 and Jannik Sinner 7-64 6-4 6-1.
Nadal has won 1 title in 2020 in Acapulco.
Rafael won 85 titles in his career: 21 on hard courts, 59 on clay courts, 1 on indoor courts and 4 on grass courts. (See the list of his titles)
Diego Sebastian Schwartzman and Rafael Nadal played each other 10 times. The head to head is 9-1 for Nadal. The last time that they fought against each other, Diego Sebastian Schwartzman won 6-2 7-5 in the quarter in Rome (Internazionali BNL d’Italia) on the 19th of September 2020.
Here the highlights.
Fabio Fognini in 2020
Currently ranked no.15, Fognini played his last match on the 28th of September when he surrendered to Mikhail Kukushkin 7-5 3-6 7-61 6-0 in the 1st round of the French Open.
