The international tournament Loulé Ladies Open by Cimpor, which was supposed to start today, was postponed due to the passage of the Bernard Depression, which put the Algarve in Red alert.
The Loulé Ladies Open by Cimpor – a US$25.000 women's international tournament that the Clube de Ténis de Loulé organizes, for the third consecutive year, with the support of the Loulé City Council and the Portuguese Tennis Federation – begins tomorrow, October 23rd. This will be the first of seven rounds and will soon feature 11 Portuguese tennis players in action at the qualifying.
The biggest highlight of the qualifying phase is the presence of Inês Murta. Six months after holding the last official meeting, the 27-year-old Algarve native is back, having overcome the various physical problems that forced her to interrupt a season that began with two singles finals in Manacor, and directly into the second round of the qualifying, which he will discuss with his compatriot Catarina Moreira.
Inês Murta is in 863rd place in the ranking WTA, but she reached 546th in February 2017 and is one of the best Portuguese tennis players of the last decade.
On her CV, the 27-year-old has a singles title (Ponta Delgada 2016) in six international finals, in addition to being absolute national runner-up on three occasions (2014, 2015 and 2020) and being part of eight calls for the national team for the Billie Jean King Cup (formerly Fed Cup), the most recent in April this year.
Angelina Voloshchuk (799th WTA and under 16 national champion), Sara Nunca (1056th WTA), Maria Garcia (1319th WTA and current under 18 national champion), Carolina Mesquita (1368th in ranking and runner-up at the same level), Maria Beatriz Teixeira, Carla Tomai and Inês Esteves were also exempt from the first round in Loulé, but due to the rain they will all play on Monday.
Only one Portuguese representative will have to go to the game in the first round: Iara Guerreiro Gonçalves, the 15-year-old young woman who represents the Clube de Ténis de Loulé and who will make her debut on the professional circuit against the British India Rojano, 12 years older, but to date he has only played five tournaments and is still looking for his first victory.
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