ATP Umag - DRAW: Fabio Fognini and Borna Coric are favorites
The Plava Laguna Croatia Open in Umag will take place for the 30th time, with everything starting in 1990. Umag, a small city in Istra region in the northern Adriatic, is one of the most beautiful stops on the ATP calendar and it has always attracted a solid field of players. Goran Prpic from Yugoslavia was the first winner and it was Thomas Muster who claimed three titles until 1995. Still, Carlos Moya is the biggest star of this event, conquering five titles between 1996-2007 while the other notable champions are Marcelo Rios, Guillermo Coria, Stan Wawrinka, Fernando Verdasco, Nikolay Davydenko, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Tommy Robredo and Dominic Thiem.
The winner from three years ago Fabio Fognini is the top seed, facing Stefano Travaglia or Thomas Fabbiano in an all-Italian second round. Viktor Galovic, Taro Daniel and Filip Krajinovic complete the upper quarter and we should get Fognini vs. Krajinovic battle for the place in the semi-final. Laslo Djere and Leonardo Mayer lead the second quarter, facing Paolo Lorenzi, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Jiri Vesely and Pablo Andujar for the spot in the last four. If he brings his best tennis, Djere should be the favorite for that but the other players will seek their chance as well in their first clay-court tournament in a month and a half.
The defending champion Marco Cecchinato is the 5th seed, with Dusan Lajovic, 2017 winner Andrey Rublev, Robin Haase, Pedro Sousa, Aljaz Bedene and the young Italian star Jannik Sinner all lined-up in the third quarter. Marco has not been playing well this year and the rivals will have the opportunity to dethrone him and march towards the spot in the semi-final if he doesn't bring something special like a year ago. The 2nd seed and the home favorite Borna Coric returns to Umag, hoping to become the first Croatian champion since 2012 and kicking off the action versus Corentin Moutet, Nino Serdarusic, Facundo Bagnis and Martin Klizan.
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