MINSK, 19 May (BelTA) – Belarus' world number 103 Aliaksandra Sasnovich went off to a good start at the Serbia Open in Belgrade seeing off world number 145 Xiyu Wang of China 6-7 (6-8), 6-0, 6-2 in two hours and 33 minutes, BelTA has learned.
The Belarusian will next play Spain's world number 172 Cristina Bucsa.
In the doubles round of Last 16 Belarus' Lidziya Marozava and Romania's Andreea Mitu defeated the Indian-Romania tandem of Ankita Raina and Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-3, 4-6, 10-5. In the quarterfinal the Belarusian-Romanian duo will take on the Serbian tandem of Aleksandra Krunic and Nina Stojanovic.
Belarus' world number 91 Ilya Ivashka beat world number 105 Fernando Verdasco of Spain 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 to reach the Geneva Open round of Last 16. The Belarusian will next play world number 20 Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.
Ilya Ivashka went through the qualifying stage defeating China's world number 1,076 Li Hanwen 6-0, 6-3 and world number 120 Mackenzie Mc Donald of the United States 6-4, 6-3.
The competitions in Belgrade and Geneva will be over on 22 May.
