The Dominicans Ángel Maleno, Daniel Baquero and Carolina Chiatti will play today for the pass to the doubles semifinals, after achieving victories on Tuesday’s day at the J5 Santo Domingo Copa Mangú tennis tournament.
The Maleno-Baquero duet defeated the Americans Adam Bojkovic and Ty Switzer in the first round by 6-7 (3), 6-4, 10-8, and will face the second favorites, the Chileans Matías Rojas and Nicolás Villalón for the pass to the semifinals.
In the female branch, the also Creole Carolina Chiatti along with the Barbadian Hannah Chambers beat the Costa Rican Nicole Alfaro and the Dominican María Gell 6-1, 6-4, thus advancing to the quarterfinals, where they wait for rivals.
This Wednesday in singles Maleno, Chiatti and María Castaño will see action, who will face Kurt Miller (3), Esther Vyrlan and Ximena Morales, respectively.
The Mangú Cup continues this Tuesday at 8:30 in the morning in all the fields of the Parque del Este.
For this year, the Mangú Cup, like its predecessor Mangulina, went from grade 5 to 4 on the scale of the ITF junior tournaments, which means that it will award 60 points to the singles champions and 45 to those who triumph in the doubles. .
Players from Mexico, Canada, Australia, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, Argentina, Chile, France, Bolivia, Brazil, Malta, Indonesia, Turkey, among other countries, also participate in the event.
This competition is supported by SportsEd TV, Wilson, Ekatex and El Nuevo Diario, and is under the supervision of Julio Cavero by the ITF. Sergio Tobal, vice president of Fedotenis, is in charge of the general management.
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