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| 22 May 2003 | |
| Quarterfinal line-up decided |
The quarterfinal line-up was completed today at the Alberto
Bonacossa Club in Milan and there were no surprises in the girls’ singles as the seeded
players took their appointed places.
Jarmila Gajdosova of the Slovak Republic, seeded three,
dismissed Canada’s Beier Ko 63 76 to advance to a meeting with fifth seed,
Katerina Bohmova, of the Czech Republic, who defeated Russia’s Anna
Chakvetadze 64 63. Neither girl has dropped a set in the tournament so far and
Bohmova in her first Grade A quarterfinal, will now be looking to reverse the
result of their previous meeting at the Eddie Herr International last December
against the Junior US Open semifinalist.
The other quarterfinal meeting determined today will pit Ukrainian Viktoria Kutuzova, a 63 67 60 winner against Volha Havartsova, of
Belarus, against Lithuania’s Aurelia Miseviciute, who beat Russian Alla
Kudryavtseva 64 64. Miseviciute, seeded six here, has never advanced further
than the quarterfinals at a Grade A event while Kutuzova was runner-up at the
Australian Juniors in January.
In contrast, only three boys’ seeds have reached the last
eight : top seed Nicolas Almagro, of Spain continued to progress with a
comfortable 61 63 defeat of USA’s Timothy Neilly and will now face unseeded
German, Eric Scherer, who ousted Spain’s Guillermo Alcaide-Justell 63 36 63 to
reach his second Grade A quarterfinal. Almagro, having spent much of his time
on the ITF Futures circuit, is competing in only his third junior tournament
and has only ever lost one junior match to 2002 ITF Boys’ World Champion,
Richard Gasquet at Roland Garros 2002.
Ninth seed Luis Flores, of Mexico, overcame marathon man
Kamil Capkovic, of the Slovak Republic, who was seeded eighth, 67 63 1210; a
result which means that Capkovic played an incredible 103 games in 8 sets
here! The Mexican advances to his
second Grade A quarterfinal against surprise package, Novak Djokovic, of
Yugoslavia, who after defeating second seed David Brewer in the opening round,
has reached this stage for the first time. After defeating Heithem Abid, of
Tunisia 64 60, he said that he was very confident of his chances as his victory
over Brewer had given him a very positive frame of mind. Flores won their only
previous meeting in the Eddie Herr International last December.
The remaining quarterfinals, for which the pairings were
decided yesterday, also take place tomorrow: girls’ top seed Vera Douchevina, of
Russia, takes on Hungary’s Agnes Szavay and No.2 seed, Michaela Krajicek, of
the Netherlands faces Kirsten Flipkens, of Belgium. Szavay and Flipkens are the
only two unseeded players left in the girls’ singles. Boys’ No.3 seed, Daniel Gimeno-Traver,of Spain
goes for his 31st victory in a row against Alex Kuznetsov, of USA
while Vilim Visak, of Croatia takes on France’s Julien Gely. A full report will
be available here at the end of play.
For full results and updated drawsheets from the tournament,
please click, here
Photos courtesy of Franceso Panuzio
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