Enrico Dalla Valle at the Barletta Challenger in the quarterfinals

The most important event of the week, at least for us Italians, was in Apulia, in that of Barletta (Challenger 75, clay court) where there were predictably many Azzurri on the scoreboard, with particular attention to the very young Pigi Basile and Jacopo Vasamì. And the two, to be honest, behaved very well even though they both lost on their debut on the scoreboard. The 18-year-old Basile, whose monomaniac backhand we fell in love with the first…