ATP Finals: Bolelli-Vavassori 'ready and prepared, we can do well'

We feel good, we are training well. We tested the central, we are looking forward to Monday, preparing for the match as best we can. The goal is certainly to do well and try to do better than last year.

We know that every match is tough anyway, there are many strong couples, all very consistent cups, who have played a great year like us, so it will be a battle every day. This was said in the media day press conference by Simone Bolelli, in his third ATP Finals in doubles together with Andrea Vavassori. And it is the Turin native who does not hide his happiness at being here. The goal every year is to be there, to be present at this event which is special for us, because we are Italian and we feel the warmth of the public and we are very motivated. We enjoyed both past editions - he adds - and we know what to expect, there is more experience, more maturity, so in my opinion we could do well this time too. As for the opponents, Bolelli reiterates that they are all very strong pairs, it will be a very tough battle, so we have to hold on and the goal in the meantime is on Monday and then we'll see.

The first challenge for the Azzurri will be with the Granollers-Zeballos pair. We can bother him a lot.

We demonstrated last year that when we play well we can win against anyone here in Turin and - he concludes -, in my opinion we must take inspiration from the last edition a little. We carry wonderful memories with us and hope to be able to replicate them in an even better way.