ITF Tampere: Verena Meliss is in the round of 16

Verena Meliss celebrated her 20th birthday just five days ago, Zoe Kruger will be 15 in five days and is considered a great young hope in South Africa. She is trained by the successful Swedish coach Thomas Hogstedt. Meliss started very strongly, taking the lead 2-0 and 4-2 in the first set, but Kruger was able to equalize both times. When the score was 5:4, the Kaltern native took the South African's serve again and took the set with 6:4 points. In the second period, Kruger increased the pressure, pulled away to 4:1 and won the set 6:2. But Meliss reacted promptly and ultimately dominated the third, decisive set. After more than two hours she used her first match point for a clear 6-1 victory.

On Thursday at 9 a.m. CEST, Meliss will face the top seeded Belgian Marie Benoit, number 432 in the world, in the round of 6. Three years ago in Santa Margherita di Pula on Sardinia, Benoit won the only direct duel so far with 4:4, 6:6, 3:XNUMX.

In the doubles, however, the woman from Kaltern was eliminated on Wednesday by the Italian Giorgia Testa. The “Azzurre” lost in the first round against the Russian Anna Iakovleva and the Ukrainian Gyulnara Nazarov after 1:26 hours of play with 6:7(2) and 3:6.

Weis narrowly misses his first ITF quarterfinal again

Alexander Weis, on the other hand, narrowly missed his first ITF quarter-final at the $15.000 tournament in St. Pölten, like last week in Gubbio. The 20-year-old from Bolzano had to admit defeat to Czech qualifier Yvo Panak 2:27, 6:3, 4:6 in the round of 4 on Wednesday after 6:6 hours of play. Weis got off to a better start, took the lead with a break and then took the first set 3:4 points. In the second period both players held serve until 4:5, then Panak managed the decisive break to make it 4:6. The Czech then fended off two break points and won the set 4:2. The third period of the game was similar. Panak again took serve from Bolzano in the ninth game and then used his third match point after 27:6 hours to make the final score 4:XNUMX.

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ITF Tampere: Verena Meliss is in the round of 16

Verena Meliss reached the round of 15.000 at the $20 tournament in Tampere, Finland on Wednesday. The 2-year-old from Kaltern defeated South African young hopeful Zoe Kruger in the first round after 08:6 hours of play in three sets, 4:2, 6:6, 1:XNUMX.

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