Young Romanian tennis players Gabriel Ghețu, 18, Radu David Turcanu, 20, and Rares Teodor Pieleanu, 19, on Tuesday advanced to the seond round of the Comesad BCR Open M25 Pitesti ITF tournament in Pitesti, prize money USD 30,000 dollars.




Sebastian Gima, the fourth seed, was defeated by Italian Francesco Ferrari, 6-2 6-2.




On the main singles draw, there are 20 Romanians, and top seed is Filip Cristian Jianu.

Tuesday's results:

Singles, first round

Francesco Ferrari (Italy) beat [4]Sebastian Gima 6-2 6-2

[7] Gabriel Ghetu beat George Lazarov (Bulgaria) 6-7 (4/7) 7-5 6-3

[8] Radu David Turcanu beat Gabriele Bosio (Italy) 7-6 (7/5) 6-4

Rares Teodor Pieleanu beat Vladislav Melnic 6-2 7-5

Doubles, first round

[1]Oleksandr Ovcharenko (Ukraine)/Riccardo Perin (Italy) beat Andrei Corneliu Gadoiu/Matei Varbanciu 6-0 6-1

[3]Francesco Ferrari/Federico Valle (Italy) beat Filiberto Fumagalli/Matteo Liusso (Italy) 3-6 6-2 10-4

Tudor Batin/Rares Teodor Pieleanu beat Matei Florin Breazu/Matei Marius Partal 6-4 6-0

Stefan Ilie Bogdan Petre (Romania)/Edoardo Cherie Ligniere (Italy) beat David-Ioan Morega/Matei Lucian Seciu 6-2 6-3

Daniel Lara Salmeron/Carles Rojas (Spain) beat [4]Stefan Adrian Andreescu/Gheorghe Claudiu Schinteie 6-1 7-5

Calin Apostol/Mihai Razvan Marinescu beat Adrian Constantin/Mihai David Haita 1-6 6-4 10-6

[2]Stefan Horia Haita/Radu David Turcanu beat Bor Artnak (Slovenia)/Gabriele Bosio (Italy) 0-6 6-4 13-11. AGERPRE (RO - editing by Mihai Tenea; EN - writing by: Corneliu-Aurelian Colceriu)

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