Portuguese tennis players Duarte Trocado, Diego Fernandez da Silva, Tomás Almeida, started the qualifying phase of the Loulé Open by Cimpor in the best possible way, by winning the games they played yesterday, Sunday, on the first day of the tournament,
«Initially with 17 home players competing in the qualifying phase, the ITF M25 that the Clube de Ténis de Loulé organizes between the 17th and 24th of March with the support of the Loulé City Council and the Portuguese Tennis Federation will have 10 discussing the presence in the access round to the main singles table", announced the tournament organizers.
The first Portuguese tennis player to move forward was Duarte Trocado.
«Playing close to home, the young man from The Campus beat his compatriot Daniel Silva 7-6(1) and 6-1 early in the morning and set up a meeting with Austrian Keanu Elias Immler in the second round», they reveal.
Afterwards, Diego Fernandez Da Silva followed the same path «thanks to a remarkable recovery against the German Alexander Wolfschmidt, who defeated with scores of 0-6, 7-6(8) and 10-7. The 17-year-old tennis player's next opponent will be Alec Beckley, from South Africa».
The clearest victory for a Portuguese player was signed by Tomás Almeida, «who passed without difficulty (6-1 and 6-0) the meeting with Afonso Santos to join the Spaniard Tomas Curras Abasolo in the second round».
The Portuguese quarter qualified in this Sunday's journey was completed by the name of Miguel Simão, «responsible for the removal of the Brazilian Henrique Bork with the scores of 6-4 and 6-4. On Monday he will face a 100% Portuguese match against Daniel Marincas».
Tomás Cortez, Illia Stoliar, Tomás Tenil, Miguel Pereira Lopes and João Barreto also took part, but were unable to progress past the first round. Gonçalo Falcão (eighth seed), Diogo Marques (11th), Afonso Portugal (13th), Ricardo Batista (14th), Daniel Marincas (15th) and Guilherme Valdoleiros were exempt from the opening round and they only debut today, Monday.
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