ITF: Marion Viertler is in the quarter-finals in Cairo

The 18-year-old Viertler, who plays for TC Meran, is only playing her third ITF tournament in her career in Cairo. By reaching the quarterfinals, Viertler received 3 WTA points. So in the next few weeks she will appear as the 2th South Tyrolean in the ranking.

After surviving 3 qualifying matches, Viertler made it into the main draw for the first time, where she also defeated the Swiss Nadine Keller (WTA 1156) 3:6, 7:6(3), 6:2 at the start. On Thursday in the round of 8, the woman from Vinschger eliminated the number 1113 seeded Russian Sofia Dmitrieva (WTA 2) in two sets 6:1, 6:3. On Friday Viertler will face the tournament's number 4, Lexie Stevens. The Dutchwoman is ranked 693rd in the WTA world rankings.

In the doubles competition, the final stop for Viertler was in the quarterfinals. Alongside the Indian Aaliya Ebrahim, she had to admit defeat to the top seeds Gabriela Horackova (CZE)/Lexie Stevens (NED) 8:2, 6:1 in the round of the best 6 on Thursday.

Manfred Fellin loses in round 1 In the men's tournament, however, Manfred Fellin was eliminated in the first round. The 22-year-old from Brixen, number 1057 in the world, lost yesterday against the Portuguese qualifier Fabio Coelho (ATP 1430) 3:6, 7:5, 2:6. In the doubles, Fellin and Coelho of all people failed in the super tiebreak in round 1 against Stefano Battaglino (ITA)/Sebastian Prechtel (GER).

The 27 South Tyroleans (17 men and 10 women) in the tennis world rankings (their best placement in brackets - until December 02.12.2019nd, XNUMX):

ATP

Andreas Seppi 18 (28.01.2013/XNUMX/XNUMX) Jannik Sinner 78 (18.11.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX) Florian Allgäuer 216 (27.06.1999/XNUMX/XNUMX) Alex Vittur 605 (04.10.2004) Andreas Fink 609 (05.03.1990) Alexander Weis 623 (October 21.10.2019, XNUMX) Patrick Prader 714 (08.06.2009) Thomas Holzer 785 (30.08.2004/XNUMX/XNUMX) Stefan Pircher 819 (02.08.1999) Joy Vigani 901 (05.12.2016) Martin Mair 1025 (11.11.2002/XNUMX/XNUMX) Matthias Wolf 1038 (December 13.12.2010, XNUMX) Georg Winkler 1051 (November 26.11.2018, XNUMX) Manfred Fellin 1052 (October 28.10.2019, XNUMX) Moritz Trocker 1292 (16.09.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX) Horst Rieder 1461 (November 27.11.2017, XNUMX) Patric Prinoth 1790 (14.10.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX)

WTA

Karin Knapp 33 (24.08.2015/XNUMX/XNUMX) Julia Mayr 215 (20.09.2010/XNUMX/XNUMX) Evelyn Mayr 301 (19.07.2010/XNUMX/XNUMX) Jasmine Angeli 308 (09.08.1999/XNUMX/XNUMX) Verena Meliss 496 (November 25.11.2019, XNUMX) Linda Mair 650 (October 15.10.2012, XNUMX) Verena Hofer 667 (October 12.10.2018, XNUMX) Evelyn Platzer 689 (15.07.1996/XNUMX/XNUMX) Jasmin Ladurner 951 (18.04.2016/XNUMX/XNUMX) Marion Viertler - starting next week

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ITF: Marion Viertler is in the quarter-finals in Cairo

Marion Viertler from Schlanders reached the quarterfinals of the $15.000 ITF tournament in Cairo on Thursday. Manfred Fellin from Brixen, on the other hand, had to admit defeat in the first round in Egypt.

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