The Starhotels Tennis Tournament in Forte dei Marmi

Photo gallery from the event. Guests included former Davis captain, Sky Sport commentator Paolo Bertolucci and former tennis player Ubaldo Scanagatta

From August 25 to 27, Tennis Club Europa - founded in 1967 by Pompilio Fornaroli and Lidia Nardini - hosted, as has become tradition, the Forte dei Marmi Starhotels Tennis Tournament now in its fourth edition. A weekend dedicated to sports and sociability also this year much appreciated for the relaxed atmosphere of late summer.

The event was well attended, in addition to the competing athletes, by loyal frequenters of the club and outside guests including VIPs including Paolo Bertolucci, Italian tennis excellence of the 1970s, who spoke at the awards ceremony together with Starhotels President and CEO Elisabetta Fabri and was interviewed for the occasion by sports journalist and former tennis player Ubaldo Scanagatta.

112 participants in the tournament played 54 matches for an impressive 85 hours and 770 games played on the club's courts. Victory went for Women's Tennis doubles to Martina Fanciullacci & Stefania Giovannini; in second place was Francesca Capecchi & Eleonora Parducci.

In the men's doubles, Filippo Schneider & Giorgio dalla Bona prevailed; second on the podium were Dodo Canossa & Alessandro Pappani.

The first runners-up won a two-night stay at a Starhotels Collezione, as well as a voucher to discover the Roman Baths experience at LA SPA Helvetia & Bristol. The runners-up, on the other hand, received a voucher for a two-night stay in one of the Starhotels Premium, hotels located in the heart of Italy's most beautiful cities.