Four wins from four for Kiwis around the world

Wednesday, 05 May 2021

It's been a good day for New Zealand pro tennis players around the world.
Artem Sitak and his doubles partner Sergio Martos Gomes are through to the second round of the ATP Challenger tournament in in Biella in Italy. They have won 6-3 7-6 (4) in an hour and 52 over Argentines Leonardo Mayer and Juan Pablo Varilias. Sitak and Martos Gomes will face Canadian Adil Shamasdin and Switzerland's Luca Margaroli in the quarter finals.
Paige Hourigan has travelled to Salinas in Ecuador for an ITF US $25,000 women's tournament and she has won her first round singles match 6-3 6-3 over Russian Maria Timofeeva in an hour and 34. Hourigan will play Canadian Carol Zhao in the second round.
Hourigan then teamed up with Jodie Burrage to win her first round doubles match 6-1 6-2 over Columbians Meli Reasco and Antonia Samudio.
Erin Routliffe and her Indonesian partner Aldilia Sutjiadi have won their first round match at the ITF US $100,000 tournament in Charleston, beating Slovakia's Tereza Mihalikova and American Ingrid Neal 6-1 6-3 in one hour and nine minutes.

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