Berrettini goes on in double too

St. Petersburg Open doubles champion (with Fabio Fognini) Matteo Berrettini continues his title defense -now with another fellow Italian Simone Bolelli who is Australian Open doubles champion. After the short match in singles where he beat the Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena, which Berrettini won 6/1, 6/2, the Italians beat the Dane Frederik Nielsen who is the Grand Slam champion himself and Tim Puetz 6/4, 4/6, 10-7.

They’ll play the second seeds Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen for a spot in the final. The Belgians beat Adrian Mannarino from France and Hugo Nys from Monaco – 6/4, 6/4 on Thursday, September 19.

The first seeds Nikola Mektic and Franko Skugor from Croatia defeated the American Nicholas Monroe and the Belorussian Andrei Vasilevski 6/4, 6/2 in one hour securing a place in the semifinals of St. Petersburg Open 2019 . Mektic and Skugor managed to win two matches in a row for the first time since Wimbledon.