Zvonareva in round two of Tashkent Open Qualifiers

23 September 2017

Tashkent , September 23:  Former world no 2 Vera Zvonareva (RUS) coming from a two year layoff  started her campaign with  a win as sixth seeded Ukrainian  Anhelina Kalinina conceded at scores reading  6/4,1/0 to move into the   final round qualifying at the 19th edition of Tashkent Open WTA Championships being played at the Olympic  tennis School in Tashkent

In a close match fifth seeded Lizette Cabrera of Australia stopped a fighting Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece  6/3 2/6 6/3 to move into the final round qualifiers along with Top seeded Jana Fett of Croatia, second seed Ana Bogdan of Romania , third seeded  Jasmine Paolini of Italy , fourth seeded Irina Khromacheva  of  Russia , seventh seeded Ipek Soylu of turkey  and eighth  seeded    Anna Kalinskaya  Russia  .

 Following are the results first round qualifying

[1] Jana Fett (CRO) vs. Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 6/4,6/1

[7] Ipek Soylu (TUR) vs. [WC] Sevil Yuldasheva (UZB) 6/0,6/1

[2] Ana Bogdan (ROU) vs. [WC] Gozal Ainitdinova (KAZ)6/2,6/2

[5] Lizette Cabrera (AUS ) vs Valentini Grammatikopoulou (GRE)  6/3 2/6 6/3

[3] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) vs. Katarina Zavatska (UKR)4/6,6/3,6/1

Vera Zvonareva (RUS) vs. [6] Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) 6/4,1/0

[4] Irina Khromacheva (RUS) vs. [WC] Nasiba Espolova (UZB) 6/0,6/1

Eugenie
Bouchard