Top seed Griekspoor wins

Manama : Top seed Scott Griekspoor of the Netherlands ranked 331 in the world defeated his Italian opponent Sasha Merzetti 6-4, 6-4 yesterday in the first round of the men’s singles of the ITF Futures Tennis Tournament at the Bahrain Tennis Club in Juffair.

Third seed German Yannick Maden had a much easier passage to the second round following a 6-0, 6-0, win over Bahrain-based Filipino-based Jerico Bohol and fourth seeded Lennert Van Der Linden of the Netherlands was a 6-1 7-5 winner over Isa Mammetgulyyev from Turkmenistan.

Bahrain’s five participants in the fray were all eliminated, Aria Harajchi of Switzerland was a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Abdul-Rahman Janahi, eighth seed Kunal Anand of India beat Ahmed Janahi 6-0, 6-1, Iran’s Amirvila Madanchi brushed aside Hasan Abdulnabi 6-3, 6-1, Italian Joy Vigani was a 6-1, 6-0 winner over Yousif Dhaif and sixth seed Tobias Simon of Germany had no problem in winning 6-0, 6-0 against Roy Boutagy.

Top seed in the women’s event Jia-Jing Lu of China won 6-2, 6-2 against Tina Tehrani of the US and defending champion Fatma Al Nabhani of Oman brushed aside Belgian Morgane Michiels 6-3, 6-1.

Third seed Prerna Bhambri from Indiia beat Bahrain-based Croatian Frana Ugarkovic 6-1, 6-1 and fourth seed Kamila Kerimbayeva from Kazakhstan won 6-3, 7-6(5) against German Katharina Hering.

Other results:

Men’s 1st Rd:

Connor Farren (US) bt Mohamed Abdel-Aziz (Egy) 6-4, 6-1, Mateusz Terczynski (Pol) bt Thomas Linge (Nor) 6-3, 6-2), Tallon Griekspoor bt Sharmal Dissanayake (Sri) 6-4,6-0, Cameron Silverman (US) bt Lorenzo Frigerio (Ita) 6-3 4-6 6-4, Andrew Ruppli (Sui) bt Aditya Deswal (Ind) 6-1, 6-2), Bernd Kossler (Aut) bt Roy Sarut De Valk (Ned) 6-2, 6-1, Quinton Vega (US) bt Mateo Faber (Cro) 4-6 6-3 7-6(5).

Women’s 1st Rd:

Estelle Cascino (Fra) 6-1 6-2 Viktoria Morvayova (Svk)

Miriana Tona (Ita) 6-1 4-6 6-3 Stamatia Fafaliou (Gre)

Anna Kalinskaya (Rus) [7] 6-1 6-0 Alisa Deen (Nor)

Emma Janssen (Bel) 6-4 6-1 Ekaterina Korzhova (Rus)