ITF: Verena Hofer fails at the start in Turkey

Hofer, currently ranked 752nd in the world rankings, was already firmly in the main field in Antalya thanks to her ranking. In Turkey there was a bitter defeat for the South Tyrolean, who played her 4th tournament of the season today.

Hofer even missed two set points in the first set with the score at 5:3 and his own serve. In the tiebreak of the second game, the Val Gardena woman was already ahead 3-1, but Arshinkova then scored six points in a row and won 2-08 after 7:3 hours.

Horst Rieder retired in Opatija Horst Rieder was also eliminated from the $15.000 ITF tournament in Opatija in Croatia. In the fourth, decisive qualifying round, the 20-year-old from Völs met the top seeded Slovenian Tom Kocevar-Desman today, to whom he clearly had to admit defeat 2:6, 1:6. Sinner and Weis in the main draw on Wednesday Jannik Sinner and Alexander Weis, however, are still there in Heraklion and Santa Margherita di Pula. The 16-year-old Sinner from Sexten survived the qualification of the 15.000 dollar tournament in Greece and will face the German Rudolf Molleker in the main draw in round 1 on Wednesday. The 17-year-old young talent is ranked number 8 in Heraklion and appears at position 575 in the ATP world rankings.

Thanks to his world ranking, Alexander Weis is in the main draw of the $25.000 tournament in Sardinia. The 20-year-old from Bolzano, whose game had to be postponed until tomorrow due to rain, will face the Romanian Bogdan Ionut Apostol (ATP 860) at the start.

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ITF: Verena Hofer fails at the start in Turkey

Verena Hofer was eliminated from the $15.000 ITF tournament in Antalya on Tuesday. The 20-year-old from Ortisei was defeated in the first round by Bulgarian Petia Arshinkova (WTA 894) in two sets 5:7, 6:7(3).

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