Moldovan tennis players Daniela Ciobanu and Anastasia Vdovenco suffered defeats in the first round of the ITF Antalya tournament. Both of them lost the game in two sets, IPN reports.
Ciobanu was beaten by Bibiane Schoofs of the Netherlands 0-6, 1-6, while Vdovenco lost to Russia’s Maia Katsitadze 2-6, 0-6.
The two athletes played in pair in the doubles, but were again defeated, by Kotomi Takahata (Japan) / Tina Tehrani (the U.S.) 5-7, 4-6.
In the ITF Shimkent tournament, Moldovan player Andrei Soltoianu was eliminated in the first round by Ukraine’s Dmytro Badanov, who is the 770th in the ATP rankings. The score was 6-7, 3-6.
