The Georgian tennis player Ana Tatishvili, who is in the 227th place in the renewed ranking of the WTA, will test her strength in the tournament in Albuquerque (75 000 USD) this week.
Maria Sanchez, who is invited with a “Wild Card” at the tournament and is #4 seeded, will be her opponent in the first round. In the doubles tournament, Tatishvili and American Irina Falconi will compete against Americans – Hsu and Melichar.
The 25 thousand tournament continues in Batumi. In the doubles competition, Maka Chakhnashvili and Sopo Kvatsabaia won over Lazareva of Russian and Pigosi of Brazilia 6:4, 7:6 (7:4) and in the ¼ final they are playing against Ekaterine Gorgodze and Sopo Shapatava, who won over #4 seeded Russians (Khromacheva and Yashina) 6:3, 6:4.
Mariam Bolkvadze and Russian Amina Anshba lost to Ukrainian Fomina and German Shakovets 2:6, 2:6. Babilina Machaidze and Tamar Chalaganidze has not hold the first round match yet.
In the singles tournament, 4 Georgian tennis players will play. #6 seed Shapatava will face German Shakovets, Chakhnashvili will play against German Zaia, Kvatsabaia against #5 seed Belarusian Ilona Kremen and Gorgodze against Russian Margarita Lazareva.
