Tennis: Camilleri, Jetcheva progress in singles

Asciak, Cassar bow out in mixed doubles Team Malta experienced mixed fortunes in the tennis competitions of the Small Nations Games at the Bannholz Complex today as Nick Camilleri and Elena Jetcheva both reached the quarter-finals of the singles...

Asciak, Cassar bow out in mixed doubles

Team Malta experienced mixed fortunes in the tennis competitions of the Small Nations Games at the Bannholz Complex today as Nick Camilleri and Elena Jetcheva both reached the quarter-finals of the singles tournament but Matthew Asciak and Kim Cassar were eliminated from the mixed doubles tournament.

Camilleri endured a positive debut in GSSE competition when he brushed aside Iceland’s Birkir Gunnarson 6-2 6-2.

The Maltese-American player was in control from the outset as he  broke his opponent twice in each set to post a comfortable victory and set out a tough-looking quarter-final against no.2 seed Benjamin Balleret or San Marino’s Giacomo Zonzini.

On her part, Jetcheva also had a trouble-free passage to the next round. The lanky Bulgarian-born player conceded just one game in each set to set up a mouth-watering quarter-final clash against Monaco’s Stephanie Vogt, ranked 302 in the world.

In the mixed doubles competition, Asciak and Cassar were beaten by 7-6 6-4 by Louise-Alice Gambarini and Balleret of Monaco

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