Last year’s Vienna finalist Lorenzo Sonego leads a high-quality line-up at the Sardegna Open in Cagliari, which starts the European clay season.
The Sardinian ATP 250 tournament will feature four of the nine Italian players inside the top 100. Sonego, who reached the fourth round at the Miami Open before losing to Stefanos Tsitsipas, will be gunning for his second ATP Tour title after claiming the Antalya Open in June 2019.
Sonego broke into top-50 in 2019 after svaing championship point against Miomir Kecmanovic to win his first ATP Tour title at Antalya.
The Turin-native achieved career-high number 32 after beating world number 1 Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-1 en route to the 2020 Vienna Open final, where he finished runner-up to Andrey Rublev.
Sonego will be joined by his compatriots Stefano Travaglia, Salvatore Caruso and Marco Cecchinato.
The other top names are Daniel Evans, Taylor Fritz and Jan-Lennard Struff.
Evans did not drop a set en route to his maiden ATP Tour title as a 30-year-old at Melbourne 2 in 2021. The British player beat Marin Cilic to achieve the biggest win of his career en route to the Australian Open fourth round and held one match point against eventual champion Stan Wawrinka in the third round of the 2016 US Open before losing in five sets.
Fritz became the youngest US player in top 25 as a 21-year-old in 2019 since Andy Roddick in 2004. He claimed his first ATP Tour title at Eastbourne and reached the 2016 Memphis final as 18-year-old wild card.
Struff achieved his career-high number 29 in 2020 after reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 quarter final in Cincinnati. The German player earned personal-best 35 wins in 2019, equalling the biggest win of his career by beating Alexander Zverev at Masters 1000 in Indian Wells. He beat Borna Coric 11-9 in the fifth set to reach his first Grand Slam fourth round at 2019 Roland Garros.
