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 | Two wins for the Bulgarians in the second qualifying tournament Zagorka Cup7-05-2011 |
The second tournament to futures for men Zagorka Tennis Cup 2011 started at TC Lokomotiv Plovdiv. In three days 64 participants will compete for eight places to rank in the main draw of the futures. During the first day of qualifying play 21 Bulgarian tennis players who will compete with rivals from the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Austria, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, USA, Greece and others.
After the first matches in the qualifiers played so far, beat the Bulgarians reached Alexander Velev and Nedyalko Kraev, which prevailed over Marco Radlovachki respectively from Sweden (6:4, 6:2) and Alexandros Kanaris of Greece (6:2, 6:2) . Two other Bulgarians - Nikolay Draganov and Adrian Stoimenov, lost their matches against the Romanians Vlad and Sebastian Pop Padure. In today's first day ahead several "Bulgarian" collision, as expected with interest matches a little later than the competitors TC Lokomotiv, Ibrahim and Nicholas Karmadzha Telkedzhiev.
Osminafinalistite the qualification phase will participate in the basic scheme of futures, which began on Monday with matches in doubles. Tuesday began the master plan individually, in which forces will compete some of the most prominent Bulgarian tennis players (Tihomir Grozdanov, Todor Enev, Valentin) and athletes from different countries - Gavroche Marcin from Poland, Adrian Kruchat from Romania, Axel Michael from France Mikael Lintser from Austria and others.
The tournament in Plovdiv coincides with the final phase of the first futures chain in Varna. Poles Marcin Grzegorz Panfil Gavroche-final won in the couples yesterday and today are the singles semifinals, including a strong interest is expected to match the Bulgarian Tihomir grapeanov against Serb Mile Zekich.
Tomorrow are the final in our capital.