The 30th ITF Juniors Tournament concluded on the tennis courts of the Republican School of Olympic Reserves

Alisher Daniyarov, UT

International tennis of Uzbekistan basically started with this tournament. And the fact that the anniversary competition of young players in our capital was won by Sabina Sharipova of Tashkent once again confirmed that the experience of three decades was not in vain.
The 15-year-old Sabina is already considered the second top female player of the country. However, she is not too far ahead of Nigina Abduraimova. Currently, the two girls are trying to increase their junior's rank in order to qualify to Singapore. Abduraimova, as is known, distinguished a week earlier in Namangan. In Tashkent the fellow countrywomen would only meet in the final if both were lucky. And local fans believed that this meeting is possible...
Sharipova, who was seeded fourth, perfectly handled with this task by beating Russian Evgeniya Svintsova (6/1, 6/3), Belarusian Lidziya Marozava (6/2, 7/5), Ukrainian Diana Bogoliy (seeded 8th - 6/2, 6/1) and another Belarusian player - Viktoria Kisialeva (seeded 7th - 6/1, 6/1). Unfortunately, Abduraimova (6th), who also started the tournament quite confidently, lost to the 1st seeded Russian Margarita Gasparyan in the semifinal in three sets. Gasparyan lost too much strength in this match and forfeited the tournament.
Sharipova became an absolute winner of the anniversary the tournament as she also won in the doubles competition in pair with Ekaterina Yashina from Russia. And here again there was no final match as it should had been Gasparyan to play in pair with Belarusian Natallia Vavulina, but she forfeited that match as well...
There was a great final match among boys between Belarusian Yaraslau Shyla and the representative of Ukraine Vladislav Manafov, second and sixth seeded players of the tournament. Only on the third tiebreaker the Belarusian tennis player managed to snatch away the win - 6/3, 2/6, 7/6(5). Out of 13 Uzbek players in the boys' main grid, the best result belongs to Artem Tarasov who reached the ? finals. Ukrainian players Maksim Malyshev and Vladislav Manafov won in doubles competition.

16.04.2010

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