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DOHA
Peter Kobelt exploited his hard court experience well and upset seventh seed Thomas Statzberger in straight sets in the Qatar F4 Futures Tennis Tournament at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex here on Wednesday.
The American fired eight aces to two by his Austrian rival before advancing to the quarter-finals with a fine 7-6(4), 6-4 triumph as their first meeting lasted one hour and 44 minutes.
The crucial break for Kobelt, whose all the four Futures titles have come on the hard surface, came in the ninth game when he allowed Statzberger just one point. He then held his serve to complete the third upset the event witnessed in two days.
Kobelt’s next rival is Greek qualifier Michail Pervolarakis, who ousted Russian Alexander Igoshin 6-2, 7-6(6).
Local player Mubarak Shannan Zayid resisted fifth seed Aslan Karatsev from Russia bravely but faded in the third and decider, losing 3-6, 7-6(5), 3-6. The Qatari served brilliantly and aced his opponent by 9-1. However, he could not use the second serve to his advantage and surrendered in two hours and six minutes.
After splitting the first two sets, Zayid lost his first service game and trailed 1-4. He rallied back and twice came within two games to prolong his challenge (2-4 and 3-5). He twice faced the match point in the eighth game but foiled his opponent to force the ninth.
Karatsev was too strong at this stage and held his service at love to book his Portuguese Bernardo Saraiva, the top-seed vanquisher winning his second round against Belarusian Mikalai Haliak at 6-1, 6-3.
Second seed Goncalo Oliveira was embroiled in a bitter battle for survival against Russian Shalva Dzhanashiya. However, the Portuguese escaped a freak decider to post a thrilling 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory in two hours and 28 minutes.
In a roller-coaster third set, which began with both losing their seves. They went on to trade more breaks and it was in the 10th game when Oliveira pulled off the victory off his second match point.ResultsSingles (second round)
Bernardo SARAIVA (POR) 6-1 6-3 Mikalai HALIAK (BLR)
Aslan KARATSEV (RUS) [5] 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 Mubarak Shannan ZAYID (QAT)
Evgenii TIURNEV (RUS) [4] 6-4 6-3 Jaimee Floyd ANGELE (FRA)
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO) 6-2 6-2 Antoine BELLIER (SUI)
Peter KOBELT (USA) 7-6(4) 6-4 Thomas STATZBERGER (AUT) [7]
Michail PERVOLARAKIS (GRE) 6-2 7-6(6) Alexander IGOSHIN (RUS)
Zizou BERGS (BEL) [6] 6-4 6-1 Alexandar LAZAROV (BUL
Goncalo OLIVEIRA (POR) [2] 6-3 5-7 6-4 Shalva DZHANASHIYA (RUS)
Doubles (first round)
G OLIVEIRA (POR)/ B SARAIVA (POR) [1] 7-5 6-1 P MAYER (GER) / N SCHELL (GER)
A DONSKI (BUL)/ A LAZAROV (BUL) 7-5 6-7(2) [10-6] M CUTULI (ITA) / M Shanan ZAYED (QAT)
V ORLOV (UKR) /M PERVOLARAKIS (GRE) [3] 6-2 6-3 S DZHANASHIYA (RUS) / O KHOTKOV (UKR)
M HALIAK (BLR) /A LIAONENKA (BLR) 7-6(4) 3-6 [10-5] K LOZAN (RUS) / R MUZAEV (RUS)
Guy DEN HEIJER (NED) /S PONTJODIKROMO (NED) 7-5 6-4 A ROGIC HADZALIC (CRO) / M SPEC (SLO)
A IGOSHIN (RUS) / E TIURNEV (RUS) [4] 6-1 6-3 P HELLER (GER) / T STATZBERGER (AUT)
A VIRGILI (ITA) / M Shannan ZAYID (QAT) 6-4 6-4 J al MUTAWA (QAT) / A ZHURBIN (RUS)
M GINER (ESP) / J PLA MALFEITO (ESP) [2] 6-7(2) 6-3 [10-8] A BELLIER (SUI) / K FRIBERG (SWE))
DOHA
Peter Kobelt exploited his hard court experience well and upset seventh seed Thomas Statzberger in straight sets in the Qatar F4 Futures Tennis Tournament at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex here on Wednesday.
The American fired eight aces to two by his Austrian rival before advancing to the quarter-finals with a fine 7-6(4), 6-4 triumph as their first meeting lasted one hour and 44 minutes.
The crucial break for Kobelt, whose all the four Futures titles have come on the hard surface, came in the ninth game when he allowed Statzberger just one point. He then held his serve to complete the third upset the event witnessed in two days.
Kobelt’s next rival is Greek qualifier Michail Pervolarakis, who ousted Russian Alexander Igoshin 6-2, 7-6(6).
Local player Mubarak Shannan Zayid resisted fifth seed Aslan Karatsev from Russia bravely but faded in the third and decider, losing 3-6, 7-6(5), 3-6. The Qatari served brilliantly and aced his opponent by 9-1. However, he could not use the second serve to his advantage and surrendered in two hours and six minutes.
After splitting the first two sets, Zayid lost his first service game and trailed 1-4. He rallied back and twice came within two games to prolong his challenge (2-4 and 3-5). He twice faced the match point in the eighth game but foiled his opponent to force the ninth.
Karatsev was too strong at this stage and held his service at love to book his Portuguese Bernardo Saraiva, the top-seed vanquisher winning his second round against Belarusian Mikalai Haliak at 6-1, 6-3.
Second seed Goncalo Oliveira was embroiled in a bitter battle for survival against Russian Shalva Dzhanashiya. However, the Portuguese escaped a freak decider to post a thrilling 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory in two hours and 28 minutes.
In a roller-coaster third set, which began with both losing their seves. They went on to trade more breaks and it was in the 10th game when Oliveira pulled off the victory off his second match point.ResultsSingles (second round)
Bernardo SARAIVA (POR) 6-1 6-3 Mikalai HALIAK (BLR)
Aslan KARATSEV (RUS) [5] 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 Mubarak Shannan ZAYID (QAT)
Evgenii TIURNEV (RUS) [4] 6-4 6-3 Jaimee Floyd ANGELE (FRA)
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO) 6-2 6-2 Antoine BELLIER (SUI)
Peter KOBELT (USA) 7-6(4) 6-4 Thomas STATZBERGER (AUT) [7]
Michail PERVOLARAKIS (GRE) 6-2 7-6(6) Alexander IGOSHIN (RUS)
Zizou BERGS (BEL) [6] 6-4 6-1 Alexandar LAZAROV (BUL
Goncalo OLIVEIRA (POR) [2] 6-3 5-7 6-4 Shalva DZHANASHIYA (RUS)
Doubles (first round)
G OLIVEIRA (POR)/ B SARAIVA (POR) [1] 7-5 6-1 P MAYER (GER) / N SCHELL (GER)
A DONSKI (BUL)/ A LAZAROV (BUL) 7-5 6-7(2) [10-6] M CUTULI (ITA) / M Shanan ZAYED (QAT)
V ORLOV (UKR) /M PERVOLARAKIS (GRE) [3] 6-2 6-3 S DZHANASHIYA (RUS) / O KHOTKOV (UKR)
M HALIAK (BLR) /A LIAONENKA (BLR) 7-6(4) 3-6 [10-5] K LOZAN (RUS) / R MUZAEV (RUS)
Guy DEN HEIJER (NED) /S PONTJODIKROMO (NED) 7-5 6-4 A ROGIC HADZALIC (CRO) / M SPEC (SLO)
A IGOSHIN (RUS) / E TIURNEV (RUS) [4] 6-1 6-3 P HELLER (GER) / T STATZBERGER (AUT)
A VIRGILI (ITA) / M Shannan ZAYID (QAT) 6-4 6-4 J al MUTAWA (QAT) / A ZHURBIN (RUS)
M GINER (ESP) / J PLA MALFEITO (ESP) [2] 6-7(2) 6-3 [10-8] A BELLIER (SUI) / K FRIBERG (SWE))
