Hofer is on track at the home tournament

Hofer had more trouble than expected against Chiara Giaquinta, who knocked Vera Ploner from Pusteria out of the competition in the qualification and only narrowly prevailed with 7:6(7) and 7:6(2). In the first set, the 21-year-old from Ortisei was 1:3 behind, but then pulled away to 5:3. Giaquinta was able to equalize at 5:5 and 6:6, and also fended off two set points from the Val Gardena woman in the tiebreak, but ultimately lost 7:9. In the second half of the game, Giaquinta was already leading 5:3, but Hofer showed a strong reaction, equalized to 5:5 and finally used her first match point in the tiebreak after 1:35 hours of play to make the final score 7:2. In the round of XNUMX, Hofer will face the winner of the Italian duel between Sara Gambogi and Francesca Bullani.

Saccani fails in the singles, but wins in the doubles However, Silvia Saccani was eliminated today. The 19-year-old from Gais had to admit defeat to the Czech Michaela Bayerlova, number 603 in the world rankings, 5:7, 1:6. The first set lasted almost an hour and was very even until 5:5. Then Saccani lost her serve game and then the first period of the game 5:7. In the second set, the Pustertal woman collapsed and only won a single game.

But Saccani is still in the race in doubles. With Magdalena Santer from Lana, she defeated the Spaniard Almudena Sanz-LLanezaFernandez and the Swiss Pauline Wuarin in the match tiebreak with 6:2, 5:7 and 10:3 in a very exciting match today. The number 4 seeded Slovenians Veronika Erjavec/Kristina Novak will be waiting in the quarter-finals tomorrow.

Verena Hofer is also in the doubles quarterfinals. With her Swiss partner Simona Waltert, she will also face the Czech Michaela Bayerlova and the Russian Anna Makhorkina tomorrow.

In the first round of the doubles, Laura Mair from Val Gardena and her Greek partner Sapfo Sakellaridi failed. Today the two 15-year-olds lost clearly against Susan Bandeccchi (SVI)/Jelena Simic (BIH) 3:6, 2:6. Laura Mair plays on Tuesday Mair will play her opening singles match today at 17.30 p.m., but was unlucky in the draw as she will face the tournament's number 7 and 693 in the world, Manca Pislak from Slovenia. The remaining six first round singles matches will also be played in St. Ulrich tomorrow. The top seeded Swiss Susan Bandecchi is also celebrating her debut against Joanna Garland from Taipei. Raiffeisen ITF Val Gardena Ortisei ($15.000 prize money) Main field 1. round Susan Bandecchi (SVI/WTA 445/1) - Joanna Garland (TPE/WTA 860) Sandy Marti (SVI/WTA 716) - Sapfo Sakellaridi (GRE/Q) 6:4, 6:2 Iva Zelic (CRO/Q) - Nikola Breckova (CZE/WTA 1163/Q) 7:5, 7:6(6) Laura Mair (ITA/Wolkenstein/WC) - Manca Pislak (SLO/WTA 693/7) Natalia Siedliska (GER/WTA 579/3) - Natalie Pröse (GER/WTA 1046) 7:5, 4:6, 6:1 Carmen Schultheiss (GER/WTA 882) - Chiara De Vito (ITA/WTA 1235/Q) 6:2, 7:6(3) Julia Rosenqvist (SWE/WTA 850) - Anna Makhorkina (RUS/WTA 1057) Jelena Simic (BIH/WTA 780) - Veronika Erjavec (SLO/WTA 712/8) Verena Hofer (ITA/St. Ulrich/WTA 667/6) - Chiara Giaquinta (ITA/Q) 7:6(7), 7:6(2) Sara Gambogi (ITA/WTA 1181/WC) - Francesca Bullani (ITA/WTA 1011) Nicole Gadient (SVI/WTA 1092) - Katerina Tsygourova (SVI/WTA 1181/LL) 7:5, 6:7(5), 6:3 Giorgia Pinto (ITA/WTA 1163/WC) - Simona Waltert (SVI/WTA 584/4) Michaela Bayerlova (CZE/WTA 603/5) - Silvia Saccani (ITA/Gais/WC) 7:5, 6:1 Olga Helmi (DEN/WTA 884) - Kristina Novak (SLO/WTA 957) Nora Niedmers (GER/WTA 1206/Q) - Klara Ondrejcekova (SVK/Q) 6:1, 6:1 Julia Stamatova (BUL/WTA 570/2) - Adrina Peer (SVI/WTA 1163/Q) 6:3, 6:1

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