Five Bulgarians have won their second qualifying round matches today on the tennis courts in Prokuplje. Dessislava Mladenova, Anastasia Stepu, Lyutfia Veliva, Ani Vangelova and Nikol Hristova have reached the last qualifying round in the tournament. And so "The Bulgarian National Championships" in the qualifyings in the Serbian town continue.
First seed Dessislava Mladenova didn`t have much problems against Italian Indra Bigi as she beated her in straight sets 6-3 6-2.
Second seed Anastasia Stepu (on the picture), who has recently entered the top 1000 after she reached the quaterfinals in Iasi, Romania enroute beating number 1 seed Lisa Sabino, won her second round against Slovakian Lucia Kovalova 6-2 6-4.
Lyutfia Velieva has ended a losing streak in the last few months as she won a match without losing a game and now she continued her nice impressions defeating local Jovana Karac 6-1 6-0, setting up an all-Bulgarian derby against Dessislava Mladenova ensuring atleast one Bulgarian qualifier.
Ani Vangelova who has never won a single match before this tournament has reached the final qualifying match by defeating Danijela Tomic from Serbia 6-1 6-1.
Nikol Hristova had had a a lot harder match than expected as she struggled a lot. But in the end she overlasted Israelian Margarita-Greta Skripnik 6-3 4-6 7-5.
Four Bulgarians have lost their matches. Hyulia Velieva lost to Matea Cutura 0-6 6-7(5), Nadezhda Vassileva lost to Elizabeta Bauer with a suprising score 2-6 1-6, Isabella Shinikova lost in a thrilling and dramatic match to Australian Deeon Mladin 3-6 6-2 3-6 and Elena Jetcheva lost to number 4 seed Simonka Parajova 3-6 1-6.
Final Qualifying Matches of the Bulgarians:
[1] Dessislava Mladenova (BUL) vs. Lyutfia Velieva (BUL)
[2] Anastasia Stepu (BUL) vs. Elizabeta Bauer (AUT)
Ani Vangelova (BUL) vs [5] Dunja Sunkic (SRB)
Nikol Hristova (BUL) vs. [7] Ingrid-Alexandra Radu (ROU)
No comments:
Post a Comment