Top seed Chenming Zhang of China barged through to the quarter-finals of the girls’ singles yesterday in the J30 Isa Town International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament, currently being played at the Bahrain Tennis Federation (BTF) courts in Isa Town.
The competition is a part of the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors 2025 calendar.
Zhang made it through following a 6-2, 7-6 (3) victory over Victoria Lacki of Sweden in their second round clash.
Zhang will next face off with eighth seed Daria Podlipskaya of Russia in the last eight. Daria booked her spot after beating Amani Azarkan of Denmark in another contest yesterday.
In a pair of upsets, Agata Konarska of Poland defeated third seed Saiyette Varadkar of India 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4 and Camilla Mizzi of Italy overcame fifth seed Katsiaryna Dubik of Russia 6-4, 6-2.
Also through to the next phase were second seed Leanne Abouhamad of Australia, fourth seed Milana Kolesova of Russia, sixth seed Ema Chladova of the Czech Republic, and seventh seed Sara Dessouky of Egypt.
Meanwhile, in the boys’ singles, second seed Amir Jaber of Jordan made it through to their quarter-finals after beating Artem Starikov of Russia 6-1, 6-4. Amir will take on another Russian in Nikita Berdin in his next assignment. Nikita won against eighth seed Jan Werblinski of Poland yesterday after Jan retired when he was training 4-5 in the opening set.
Also victorious yesterday and through to the last eight were fifth seed Artem Svetlov of Russia, Emre Atlamis of Turkey, Sacha Fontanges of France, Tommaso Rosso of Italy, Oscar Casas Mas of Spain, and Kaushik Arunkumar of India.
Matches are scheduled to continue today from 10am until the afternoon with action in both singles and doubles for both boys and girls. All are welcome to attend and watch the action. Entry to the BTF is free.
This week’s J30 Isa Town tournament continues until Saturday. It will be followed by another J30 ITF competition from Monday next week to February 15.
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