Seeds march through in ITF tennis

TDT | Manama    

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The seeded players in action yesterday in both the girls’ and boys’ singles categories barged into their respective second rounds in the Bahrain ITF Juniors 2023 tournament, being played at the Bahrain Tennis Federation (BTF) hard courts in Isa Town.

The competition is the third of three straight ITF events hosted by the Kingdom over the past few weeks.

It is the only J60 event that is part of the 2023 International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis Tour Juniors, which features the world’s top tennis talents aged 13 to 18.

In the girls’ singles, sixth seed Flora Johnson from Great Britain defeated Olga Danilova of Cyprus 6-2, 6-1 to advance to round two.

Seventh seed Emma Fantusis, also from Cyprus, was another winner, beating Adiya Omarbek of Kazakhstan 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7).

Eighth seed Cindy Langlais of France followed suit, beating Simona Cucu of Romania 7-5, 6-0.

Others to advance to the girls’ second phase were Yelena Lebeau of France, Arina Luisa Fusil of Slovenia, Ariana Gogulina of Kazakhstan, Ece Boylu of Turkey and Sara Dessouky of Egypt.

In the boys’ singles, second seed Aleksandar Daskalovic overcame Ozan Avanoglu of Turkey 6-3, 6-1, while third seed Marko Milosavljevic of Serbia beat Bahrain’s Shadi Kallel 6-0, 6-0.

Fourth seed Bugra Ozkoc of Turkey won against Bahraini Faris Al Toobli 6-1, 6-2, and eighth seed Aaron Gabet of France defeated Bader Idrees of Saudi Arabia 6-4, 6-2.

Also marching forward were Venkat Rishi Batlanki of the US, Ahmed Ibrahim of Egypt, Egor Shcherbakov, Josh Hinton of Great Britain and Dev Kanbargimath of Romania.

Action in the tournament continues to day at the BTF.