The hope of Nigeria’s Barakat Oyinlomo Quadre of making an impact in the second leg at the ongoing Lagos Open Tennis 2018 came to an end last night after a resounding defeat from Anna Siskova from Czech Republic in one of the first round matches.
Playing on court three at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Court, Onikan, the Nigerian only managed to improve her game in the second match but the more experienced Czech lady had a better game strategy to win the two sets at 6-0, 6-3 before a fairly large crowd that watched the proceedings.
In some other matches, Clothilde De Bernardi was better against his fellow brother from France Estelle Cascino with 6-0, 6-2 final result. While Dutch lad, Noa Liauw Fong got the better side of Alexandra Riley from USA in 6-0, 6-2 scoreline.
Riya Bhatia from India won against Claudia Coppola from Italy in 6-2, 7-6(4) result and Zeo Kruger from South Africa won against Kajsa Rinaldo Persson from Sweden in 6-4, 6-4 ending.
Jasmin Jebawy from German was coasting home before injury knocked out Rosalie Van Der Hoek from Holland the result was at 6-4, 1-0 before he retired due to thigh injury. Mihaela Djakovic from Serbia won against Merel Hoedt from Holland in 4-6, 6-2 and 6-4 result. Action resumes this morning with all the courts busy for other first round matches.
