The ITF WORLD TENNIS TOUR – Grand Palace Cup by Formula TX began the main draw matches

The first matches of the main draw of the international professional tennis tournament ITF MEN`S WORLD TENNIS TOUR – Grand Palace Cup by Formula TX with the prize pool of 15 000 USD were played at the courts of the Tennis Formula in Lakhta on Tuesday, February 2.
The representative of Ukraine Marat Devyatyarov (651) outplayed Russian Mikhail Gorokhov 6/1, 6/3, and Russian tennis player Alexei Zakharov (422) lost only three games to German A Wolfschmidt 6/1, 6/2.
Russian tennis player Ivan Gakhov (498) reached the 2nd round on the refusal of his compatriot Alexei Abazov: losing the first set 1/6, his rival withdrew. Meanwhile, Latvian Kārlis Ozolins (1013) defeated wild card holder Daniil Golubev (6/3, 6/1), and Czech Martin Krumic (1119) defeated Russian Boris Pokotilov (7/5, 6/0). In the Russian derby Shalva Janashia (725) vs Evgeny Tyurnev (421), the latter won 6/0, 6/2. Russian Savriyan Danilov (586) was stronger than Roman Nashatyrkin (1539), and experienced number two seeded Konstantin Kravchuk (353) defeated his compatriot Alexandr Igoshin (632) 6/2, 6/3.
In doubles Igoshin and his teammate Alexander Prudnikov from Belarus lost to the duo of Marat Devyatyarov (Ukraine)-Alexander Kozbinov (Moldova) 2/6, 4/6. Czech duo of Andrew Paulson-Patrick Rickle won 6/2, 3/6, 10-6 over Savriyan Danilov (Russia)-Daniel Michalski (Poland). Russians Egor Agafonov and Alibek Kachmazov defeated the pair of Bogdan Bobrov – Ivan Gakhov (6/4, 6/3), and the duo of Aleksey Abazov and Alexander Vasilenko defeated the pair of Vladislav Gorbatenko – Ilia Lyamkin (6/0, 6/0).
Russian fans will be happy to see Alibek Kacmazov (ATP No. 798) make it to the main draw after qualifying his opponent Marco Moschatti (5/0, Italian withdrew) and then easily outplayed his compatriot Sergei Pogosyan (6/2, 6/0) in the second round. Alexander Vasilenko (876), a favorite of St. Petersburg fans, was also able to break into the main team. In the first qualifying match he defeated Russian tennis player Alexander Stepin 6/7 (2), 6/1, 10-1, but in the next duel he defeated Russian tennis player Mikhail Fufygin 7/6 (4), 6/2. Russian Petr Bar-Biryukov fully justified his wild card in qualifying, beating Italian Lorenzo Boca 6/4, 6/4 in the first round and then winning the championship tie-break against fellow Russian Alexander Binda 6/4, 3/6, 10-3.
Other winners of the qualifying are Slovak Matich Speck (1,026), Moldova’s Alexander Kozbinov (756), Czech player Andrew Paulson (763), Italian Andrea Guerrieri (766) and Estonia’s Daniel Glinka (850). On Tuesday, February 2, the main draw matches will begin.
The matches will start at 10.00 a.m. on the courts of the Tennis Formula shopping center (Lahta, Petrovskaya Alley, 4, building 2, structure 1,2).
See the schedule of the game day daily on the official website of the tournament www.formulatx.com (http://gpc.formulatx.com). Also the information about the competitions will be placed in the social networks of Tennis-Hockey Formula (www.instagram.com/formula_tx,vk.com/formulatx,twitter.com/formula_tx,www.facebook.com/FormulaTX) and in the social networks of Tennis Formula TC (www.instagram.com/formulatennisa, vk.com/formulatennisa, www.facebook.com/formulatennisa).
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