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Sports 12/09/2013 Govortsova stuns Vekic at Tashkent Open
Govortsova stuns Vekic at Tashkent Open
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Unseeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus stunned fourth seed and last year’s finalist Donna Vekic of Croatia in the second round of Tashkent Open, while Spaniard Maria-Teresa Torro Flor ousted reigning champ and sixth seeded Irina Camelia Begu of Romania to enter the quarterfinals of the tournamant.

Top seeded Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia, fifth seeded Alexandra Cadantu, seventh Seeded Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan, along with unseeded Mandy Minella of Luxembourg , and Nastassja Burnett of Italy were the other players to make it to the last eight.

Olga Govortsova of Belarus took 1 hour 28 minutes to dispose of last year’s finalist and fourth seeded Croat junior Donna Vekic 7-6(4),6-3 to make her first quarterfinal appearance of the Tour this year .

Little known 86th ranked Spaniard Maria- Teresa Torro Flor came back from being 0-3 down in the second set to shock reigning champion Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania 6-1,7- 5 in 1 hour and 16 minutes

In one of the best contested matches of the day third seeded Yvonne Meusburger quelled the challenge of former top 30 player Petra Cetkovska of Czech Republic 7-5, 6-4 in 1 hour 39 minutes .

Results of the Second Round

[1] [Q] Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) bt Misaki Doi (JPN)
[7] Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) bt Julia Glushko (ISR) 6-3,6-1
[3] Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) bt Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 7-5,6-4
Maria -Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) bt [6] Irina - Camelia Begu (ROU) 6-1,7-5
[5] Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) vs Nadiya Kichenok (UKR) 6-1,6-3
Olga Govortsova (BLR) bt [4] Donna Vekic (CRO) 7-6(4),6-3
Mandy Minella (LUX) bt Vesna Dolonc (SRB) 4-6,6-4,6-3
Nastassja Burnett (ITA) bt [Q] Risa Ozaki (JPN) 6-4,3-6,7-6(4)

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