ITF: Meliss and Sinner fail in the round of 16

Melissa had to overcome the former world number 29. Urszula Radwanska was clearly beaten 2:6, 2:6, while Sinner only failed in the third set against Frenchman Gabriel Petit.

After three extremely close victories (two in qualification and one in the first round of the main draw), Verena Meliss was eliminated in the round of 1 of the $25.000 Petit-Bourg tournament in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe on the night from Thursday to Friday . The 21-year-old from Kaltern lost to the Polish Urszula Radwanska, currently number 317 in the WTA rankings, but she was number 29 six years ago, in two sets. Radwanska dominated the game, took serve from Meliss a total of five times and used her first match point after just 1:14 hours of play to make the final score 6:2, 6:2.

Sinner loses his singles match, but is in the doubles semi-finals Jannik Sinner (ATP 549) was also eliminated in the round of 15.000 of the $17 tournament in Monastir. The 451-year-old from Sesto was defeated by Frenchman Gabriel Petit (ATP 2), who was six years older than him, in three sets 02:6, 3:5, 7:2 after 6:6 hours of play. Sinner was already leading 3:5 and 4:XNUMX but couldn't close the bag and then went down in the third period.

The Pusterer then took revenge in doubles. With the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang, he defeated the Russian duo Timor Kiyamov/Maxim Ratniuk 52:6, 3:6 in just 2 minutes of play in the quarterfinals. In the semi-finals Sinner/Zhang, who are seeded number 1 in Monastir, will meet the Turkish-German pair Altug Celikbilek/Robert Strombachs on Friday at 14 p.m.

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ITF: Meliss and Sinner fail in the round of 16

Verena Meliss from Kaltern and Jannik Sinner from Puster were eliminated in the round of 16 of the ITF tournaments in Petit-Bourg and Monastir.

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