TC Rungg Südtirol Yogurteria defeated Serie A1 league leader Santa Margherita Ligure 4–2 on Sunday, October 25, 2026, putting the club within reach of the championship play-offs with two matches remaining.
TC Rungg Men Defeat Undefeated Santa Margherita Ligure
The Rungg men’s team entered Sunday’s fixture facing severe roster hurdles. Enrico Dalla Valle was sidelined with an injury, and substitute Franco Agamenone took the court while battling a fever, according to local reporting from sportnews.bz. During his singles match against Francesco Maestrelli, Agamenone fell 1–6, 2–6. In the top singles encounter, former world No. 47 Marc-Andrea Hüsler ran into an in-form Andrea Pellegrino of the visiting side, dropping a tight straight-sets match 4–6, 4–6.
Despite those setbacks, Rungg leveled the tie through Alexander Weis and Maximilian Figl. Figl swept past Giacomo Nosei 6–2, 6–2. Meanwhile, Weis faced Luca Castagnola in a grueling contest. Leading 4–3 in the third set, the Bolzano native required a medical timeout to treat a returning abdominal muscle tear. Weis fought through the pain to secure an immediate break, serving out a 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 victory to tie the overall score at 2–2 after singles play.
Doubles Heroics Seal the Upset Victory
With Weis physically compromised and Agamenone unable to take part in the doubles due to illness, Rungg captain Manuel Gasbarri turned to an improvised pairing: Nicolò Toffanin and Marco Bortolotti. Bortolotti, who had previously ended his active professional career, was reactivated for the fixture, sportnews.bz reported. The veteran duo dropped a tight opening tiebreak 5–7 to Castagnola and Nosei before rebounding decisively to take the second set 6–1 and the match tiebreak 10–6.
In the second doubles rubber, Hüsler and Figl delivered a straightforward 6–2, 6–1 win against Pellegrino and Andrea Basso. The 4–2 team triumph pulls Rungg level with Santa Margherita Ligure on nine points at the top of the group standings. CT Zavaglia and CT Palermo trail six points back with two rounds left in the regular season.
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