The elimination of Carlos Pigem from Lleida at the hands of local player Matteo Manassero has left the Men's Italian International without any Spanish representation. 24 hours earlier, the women's side of the tournament also lost its Spanish players after the defeat of Mandy Goyos from A Coruña, also in the semifinals.

At the Villa d'Este course near Milan, Carlos Pigem challenged the high-profile Italian player—the youngest golfer to win the British Amateur—but fell by a narrow 2&1. Just hours earlier, Barcelona native Gerard Piris, the second Spaniard to reach the match draw, was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Those who failed to advance to the knockout rounds were Jorge Simón, Antonio Hortal, Juan Francisco Sarasti, Adrián Otaegui, Scott W. Fernández, and Borja Virto.

Mandy Goyos, a player from A Coruña, had the same fate as Carlos Pigem at Le Fonti Golf Club near Bologna. Along with Elia Folch, Belén Buendía, and Ane Urchegui, she advanced through the first two rounds of stroke play. Buendía came within a whisker of reaching the final, but Eugenia Ferrero from Turin blocked her path in the semifinals, defeating her 2-1. Earlier, in the quarterfinals, Belén Buendía lost to the Italian Blanca María Fabrizio 3-1.

It is worth remembering that this International Championship in Italy has been the scene of several Spanish triumphs in recent years: Álvaro Velasco and Inmaculada de la Lama won in the same edition, that of 2001, while Marta Prieto did so in 2002 and, more recently, Pedro Oriol in 2005.

Finally, the winners of this Italian International were the Englishman Thomas Shadbolt, who defeated Matteo Manassero (1up) in the men's final, and Eugenia Ferrero herself, who defeated Blanca María Fabrizio (3/2) in the women's final.

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