Verena Meliss in the top 600 in the world for the first time

After 21:1 hours of play, the 37-year-old from Kaltern was clearly defeated by the number 3 seed and 395 in the world, Maddison Inglis from Australia, 2:6, 4:6.

Despite the defeat, Meliss made it into the top 600 of the world rankings for the first time in her career with the three WTA points she won. As of next Monday she will appear in the WTA rankings at number 598.

Verena Hofer from Val Gardena, on the other hand, is currently number 704 in the world. After a six-week break from tournaments, the 21-year-old from Ortisei celebrated a successful debut on Tuesday in the decisive qualifying round of the $25.000 tournament in Santa Margherita di Pula. Hofer defeated the German Lisa Ponomar (WTA 759) 6:3, 7:6(6) and moved into the main draw. The woman from Val Gardena won the first set confidently and had her first match point in the second half of the game when the score was 5:3, but was unable to convert it. After that, the game was hard to beat in terms of excitement. Hofer first had to fend off two set points from her opponent when the score was 5:6 and then at 5:6 in the tiebreak before she was able to hold her own with 2:03 after 8:6 hours of play.

At the men's tournament in Sardinia, Georg Winkler (ATP 1107) from Völs reached the round of 1444 on Tuesday. Winkler, who was allowed to start in the main draw thanks to a wild card, prevailed in the first round against Mike Loccisano from Germany (ATP 7) 5:6, 3:2. In the first set, the Völser was 5:7 behind, but then won five games in a row to 5:4. In the second half of the game, Winkler took serve from the German to make it 3:1 and then, after 52:6 hours of play, used his first match point to make the final score 3:484. In the round of XNUMX, Winkler will meet his teammate at TC Rungg, Marco Bortolotti (ATP XNUMX).

Manfred Fellin is eliminated in Antalya Less good news comes from the Brixen brothers Manfred and Pietro Orlando Fellin, who had to say goodbye to the $15.000 tournament in Antalya. Manfred Fellin (ATP 1200) clearly lost his opening singles match on Tuesday against the Spaniard Javier Barranco Cosano (ATP 306) 0:6, 2:6, after which he also had to face Pietro Orlando in the first round of the doubles Russian duo Mikhail Korovin/Ivan Nedelko were beaten 2:6, 5:7.

On Tuesday, 22-year-old Joy Vigani from Brixen won the $15.000 tournament in Sharm El Sheikh with the Croatian Duje Ajdukovic in the first round of the doubles against the Italians Andrea Borroni/Simone Roncalli 65:6 after 4 minutes of play. 6:4 through. In the quarterfinals, Vigani/Adjukovic will meet number 4 seeds Adrian Andrzejczuk (POL)/Jose Vidal Azorin (ESP).

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Verena Meliss in the top 600 in the world for the first time

Verena Meliss was eliminated in the third, decisive qualifying round of the $60.000 tournament in Canberra on Tuesday.

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