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Tomorrow from 12 noon the singles quarter-finals and the doubles semi-finals are scheduled. Big evening event. A farewell party dedicated to Andreas Seppi starts at 8.30 pm.

At the Sparkasse Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol four Italian players reached the quarter-finals. After Luca Nardi and Giulio Zeppieri on Wednesday, Andrea Vavassori and Flavio Cobolli also won their second match in the main draw at the Gardena tournament today. Vavassori eliminated qualifier Sandro Kopp (Austria) with 6:3, 6:4 and emphasised that he is not only a good doubles player. In the evening Cobolli's great comeback against the Swiss Alexander Ritschard. Down 1:5 at the start, the tournament's sixth seed ended up winning 7:5, 6:1. 

The third day of the Sparkasse Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol ended with a victory by Borna Gojo. The 24-year-old Croatian from Split defeated Yannick Hanfmann, who had ended Andreas Seppi's career 24 hours earlier. Gojo decided the round of 16 on Wednesday evening in Ortisei with 7:6 (3), 6:2. On Friday in the quarter-finals he will meet Giulio Zeppieri. 

The day after Andreas Seppi was knocked out of the Sparkasse Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol, Luca Nardi underlined his claim to the tournament title in Val Gardena/Gröden. The Italian, seeded No. 3, won his round of 16 match against qualifier Evgeni Karlovskyi 6-0, 6-4 on Wednesday and became the first player to reach the quarter-finals of the € 45,730 tournament in Ortisei.

Thank you Andreas Seppi: On Tuesday evening, Andreas Seppi's career came to an end at his home tournament in Val Gardena/Gröden. The 38-year-old from Kaltern ended his glittering career after more than 20 years on the ATP Tour. Seppi was one of the pillars of Italian tennis over the last two decades, ranked 18th in the world, played 67 Slam tournaments and won three tournaments.