Meliss fends off 7 match points and wins

Verena Meliss plays a $25.000 tournament in Petit-Bourg in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The 21-year-old from Kaltern had to start in the qualification. Here she made it into the main field in two very close games. First, Meliss defeated the Canadian Chaterine Leduc 2:34, 6:1(6) and 7:6 after 10:8 hours of play, then she also defeated the American Shelby Talcott 4:6, 6:1, 11: 9.

Melissa pulls her head out of the noose In the main draw on Wednesday evening she beat another American, Jacqueline Cako, number 430 in the world, 2:6, 6:2, 7:6(8). Meliss fended off a total of seven match points from her opponent in this game, four when the score was 6:5 for Cako and three more in the tiebreak, where she was already 3:6 behind before she got her first match point for 2th after 44:8 hours :6 utilized. Only Urszula Radwanska is waiting for Meliss in the round of 28. The 317-year-old Pole is currently number 29 in the WTA rankings, but was already number XNUMX six years ago.

The 17-year-old Jannik Sinner (ATP 549) from Sesto, on the other hand, is in the round of 15.000 at the $9 tournament in Monastir, Tunisia, where he will meet Frenchman Gabriel Petit (ATP 451), who is six years older than him, on Thursday at 7 a.m. Today Sinner benefited from the Swede's forfeit in his first round match against Jonathan Mridha after winning the first set 5-XNUMX.

Sinner is also still in the race in doubles, where he is seeded number 1 with Zhizhen Zhang. In the first round, the Pusterer and the Chinese defeated Darko Bojanovic from Bosnia/Herzegovina and the German Luca Gelhart 6:2, 6:3. Sinner/Zhang will play in the quarterfinals tomorrow at 13.30:XNUMX p.m. against the Russian duo Timor Kiyamov/Maxim Ratniuk,

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Meliss fends off 7 match points and wins

Verena Meliss from Kaltern and Jannik Sinner from Puster qualified for the round of 16 of the ITF tournaments in Petit-Bourg and Monastir on Wednesday.

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