Governor's Cup Tennis 2nd Leg: Three African Players Land In Quarter Finals, As Nigerians Bow Out

Feel so sad that we didn't make it. Three African

players fought their way into the quarter finals

of the second leg (Futures 4) of the 15th

Governor's Cup Lagos Tennis Championship in

the second round matches decided at Lagos

Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan Wednesday.

The local players, however, are at the receiving

end of defeats, as all the Nigerian players in the

second round failed to make the quarter final

stage.

Number two seed in the men's singles, South

African Llyod Harris defeated Swiss player,

Jessy Kalambay in straight set of 6-3, 6-3 to set

up a quarter final match against France's Fabio

Reboul who beat

Nigerian Sylvester Emmanuel 6-2, 6-4.

Takanyi Garanganga of Zimbabwe stopped

Nigerian Joseph Imeh Ubong in straight set of

6-4, 6-2, while Duncan Mugabe of Uganda

defeated Deimas N'Tcha of Benin Republic in

another straight set of 6-2, 6-0.

Umaru Balami could not survive the heat from

tournament number sixth seed, Antal Van Der

Duim from The Netherlands as he was defeated

2-6, 1-6.

In other results of the men’singles, Egyptian

Karim-Mohammed Maamoun defeated Aaron

Cortes Alcaraz who retired in the second set of

their match after 7-5, 5-2. French Sadio

Doumbia, number 4th seed, beat Ben McLachlan

of New Zealand in 5-7, 6-36-1 game.

Meanwhile, the only Nigerian lady in the second

round was sent out by French Tessah

Andrianjafitrimo in a one sided match that ended

6-0, 6-0. Top seed, Vaeriya Strakhova from

Ukraine beat

Mara Schmidt of USA 6-0, 6-3.

Tadeja Majeric, who won a leg in the 2013

edition of the Governor's Cup beat Fiona Codino

of France 6-1, 6-0. Xiaozi Zhao of China upset

number sixth seed, Magarita Lazareva 7-6, 6-7,

6-1, while Swiss lady Conny Perrin beat SShivika

Burman of India 6-3,6-1.

Prathana Thombare of India defeated Ushna

Suhail of Pakistan 6-0, 6-2. Russian-born

Nigerian Melissa Ishuan Fiddzhen could not fly

past Julia Terziyska as she was sent packing in

6-0, 6-4 match, while South Africa-based

Zimbabwean Valeria Bhunu was stopped by

Ulrikke Eikeri Norway in 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 game.

In the quarter final pairings, Doumbia will face

Van Der Dium, Duncan will play Garanganga,

and Maamoun will battle Setkic in the Men’s

Singles.

In the Women's Singles, Strakhova will play

Eikeri, Majeric will go to

war against Thombare,

Chinese Xiaoni will battle Perrin, while

Andrianjafitrimo and Terziyska will settle scores

in the last match of the quarter final.