NEWS

With the opening ceremony scheduled for tonight at 21.30 (19.30 local) will start officially the Games of the Small States of Europe 2015, this year hosted by Iceland. The representative of San Marino Tennis Federation suffered shortly before departure a blow, with the forfait of Stefano Galvani, stopped by a back injury. In his place, Captain Galimberti convened in extremis Pietro Grassi, born in 1998, his pupil in Tennis Academy in San Marino and Italian champion under-16 team last season. Grassi (photo) will join Marco De Rossi, born in 1997, and the great hope of tennis biancoazzurro. In addition to the singles, scheduled on Tuesday morning, the two young Titans debuts together in doubles, presumably in the afternoon of the same day. The surface on which it will compete in the tournament is the granular carpet, inside the Kópavogs Tennis Hall.