The AnyTech365 Andalucía Open confirms the participation of the Italian Fabio Fognini. The 17th FedEx ATP Rankings get a Wild card by the tournament organization, which would place him as the third seed in the main draw for the time being (after the confirmed casualties of Roberto Bautista Agut and Stan Wawrinka). Winner of 9 ATP titles, including the 2019 ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo, Fognini joins the luxury cast that is looking in Marbella for the final triumph in the first official clay court tournament of the European tour.
The San Remo tennis player and former top ten arrives directly from Miami to face the season on brick dust. Fabio started this 2020 in Oceania reaching the final of the ATP Cup with Italy and reaching the round of 16 of the Australian Open where he yielded to Rafael Nadal. Now in the old continent, the transalpine tennis player starts a phase of the season where historically he has reaped great results.
Fabio Fognini (San Remo, Italy. 1987) reached his best individual ranking in 2019, when he was placed in the Top Ten as world number 9; the first Italian to do so since Barazutti in 1979. Australian Open champion in doubles (2015), Fognini is the current champion of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 after the suspension of last year's edition; a milestone that stands out in its record and where, to lift the trophy, He defeated rivals such as Andrey Rublev, Alexander Zverev or the 11-time champion of the same championship, Rafael Nadal, in the same week.