Qualifying day at the Italy Major turned on resilience rather than seeding, and no result captured it better than the comeback engineered by Aida Martinez and Camila Fassio Goyeneche. Across 32 matches, the through-line was momentum — the pairs who weathered an early storm went on to dominate, and one of them finished with a bagel.
Aida Martinez / Camila Fassio Goyeneche 4-6 6-4 6-0 Julieta Bidahorria / Marta Caparros
Martinez and Fassio lost the opening set and looked second-best for the first 40 minutes. Bidahorria and Caparros, the higher-ranked pair, controlled the net and dictated through the middle. Then the match flipped.
The winners tightened up their first volley and began turning defence into attack off the back glass. They edged the second set 6-4 to level, and the third was no contest: a 6-0 bagel in which Bidahorria and Caparros failed to win a single game. A 4-6 6-4 6-0 scoreline tells the story of two distinct halves — one team running on empty, the other peaking at exactly the right moment.
It is a notable scalp. Bidahorria and Caparros carried the better ranking profile into the match, and surrendering a closing bagel will sting more than the loss itself.
Alonso Rodriguez Martinez / Juan Ignacio De Pascual 6-3 4-0 ret. Javier Ruiz / Gonzalo Rubio
Rodriguez Martinez and De Pascual were never threatened. After taking the first set 6-3, they raced to a 4-0 lead in the second before the match closed out early — a bagel in progress that the scoreline froze at its most lopsided. A clean, efficient passage into the next round.
Alvaro Cepero / Agustín Torre 6-3 6-0 Noa Bonnefoy / Michele Brambilla
Cepero and Torre delivered the day's most clinical men's performance. The first set went 6-3, but the second was a 6-0 bagel — Bonnefoy and Brambilla unable to hold serve or find a foothold once their opponents started reading the bandeja. Few of today's winners advanced in better form.
Carmen Castillon Gamez / Maria Portillo Perez 6-4 7-6 Amanda Lopez Moral / Carla Touly
This one demanded patience. Castillon and Portillo took the opener 6-4, but Lopez Moral and Touly refused to fold in the second, dragging it to a tiebreak. The winners held their nerve in the breaker to close it out 7-6 and avoid a deciding set.
Teresa Navarro / Maria Virginia Riera 6-4 7-5 Barbara Las Heras / Carla Mesa Salazar
Navarro and Riera saw out a tight straight-sets win, 6-4 7-5. The second set went deep, with Las Heras and Mesa Salazar pushing to 5-5 before the winners found the break and served it out. Solid rather than spectacular, but enough.
With the qualifying rounds clearing out the draw, the surviving pairs now turn toward the seeded names waiting in the main bracket. Tomorrow's order of play will tell us whether today's form-finders can carry their momentum into deeper waters.