"I had received a phone call: The tournament is no longer played in Naples, ask the mayor of Florence to keep the structure to play another week" - ITF president Angelo Binaghi about Tennis Napoli Cup

Italian tennis Federation president Angelo Binaghi revealed that the event in Napoli was set to move to another location last minute.

The tennis event in Napoli was the noisest this year with bad headlines every day. From the courts being in bad shape, from the hotels throwing out players to others retiring just to avoid playing, it was an event that won't be remembered by anybody, well except Musetti who won it.

After the conclusion of it, Italian Federation president Binaghi came out to explain that the event was set to be moved:

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"I had received a phone call: The tournament is no longer played in Naples, ask the mayor of Florence to keep the structure to play another week. I replied that it would not be possible, we spoke with the federal manager Giorgio Di Palermo and we did what a good family man must do when a child has some needs: we rushed to help him and we saved the tournament."

Binaghi continued:

"It was therefore necessary to intervene immediately and with determination, even if in Florence they said they were ready I never thought of a move; with the tournament in another location they would have seized the prize money and caused a world fool, which would have remained in the history of Italian sport."

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