10K Benin City, Nigeria 1

First round results:

(1) Sania Mirza def. Marielle Weihs 7-5 7-6(6)
Magy Aziz def. (WC) Esorae Nosa 4-6 6-3 6-2
(q) Michelle Snyman def. Nicoleta Ratiu 6-3 6-0
Kathrin Glatz def. Patricia Mayr 7-5 6-4
(3) Chattida Thimjapo vs (WC) Omotayo Ibrahim
Yomna Farid vs (q) Tereza Svicova
Susanne Aigner vs Megan Falcon
Alexandra Zotta vs (7) Diana Costa
(5) Zsuzsana Babos def. Annabel Youthed 6-3 2-0 ret.
(q) Melanie Wolkersberger def. (q) Carina Hirsch 6-4 6-2
(WC) Osaro Amadin def. (q) Fatima Abinu 6-1 6-1
Franziska Eztel def. (LL) Patricia Ribeiro 6-0 7-5 :fiery:
(8) Carly Homewood vs Rebecca Dandeniya
Femi Odeyemi-Musa vs Noha Mohsen
(q) Sofia Brun vs Jessica Weyreuter
Amani Khalifa vs (2) Elisabeth Bahn

Good luck Diana Costa ;)

I don't know why this was posted twice :confused:

Anabel :sad: - hope you are okay

Carly vs Rebecca :fiery:

Go Femi :D

Omg what have they been feeding the Nigerian girls?! A few of them won sets against foreigners both in the main draw and qualies. They even won a match over 3rd seeds in doubles :eek:

(1)Babos/Mirza bt Etzel/Obermoser 36 62 76(5)
Dandeniya/Snyman bt Brun/Weyreuter 64 63 :D
Eke/Izomor bt (3)Ratiu/Zotta 46 75 64 :eek: :D
Homewood/Youthed bt wc-Abinu/Abass 63 61 :D
Amadin/Odeyemi-Musa bt Esorae/Ibrahim 61 62 :D
(4)Farid/Khalifa bt q-Ribiero/Svicova 61 63 :D
q-Glatz/Weihs bt Aziz/Mohsen 62 60 :(
(2)Aigner/Bahn bt Mayr/Wolkersberger 60 46 63

Typical Carly has to play Rebecca:rolleyes:

Zotta or Costa withdrew cause Obermoser was LL
2nd round
Aigner d. Obermoser 36 64 75
Wolkersberger d. Babos 62 62

1st round:
Aigner d. LL-Okocha 61 61
Khalifa d.(2) Bahn 76 26 61

Keep going Sania, Chattida, and Amani!!!

Go Sania

2nd round:
Farid def. Thimjapo ???

Found an article in the Vanguard (Bigeria) newspaper friday edition. But, still no news. Why do they write this kind of article. The author is whining about the tournament and forgets to do her part in publicity with something on how all the great international players are doing there. Oh well.

But it looks like they have hardly finished the second round as of end of thursday.

Jay

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Poor attendance hits Ogbe Hard Court tennis

By Emma Amaize, Benin City
Friday, February 21, 2003

AMIDST low crowd attendance at the 17th Guinness Ogbe Hard Court International Tennis Championships, Nigeria’s Jonathan Igbinovia and Abdulmumuni Babalola, Wednesday, defeated Romiayi Loglo of Togo and Segodo Amaud of Benin Republic 7-5, 7-6 (5) to cruise into the semi-finals of the men’s doubles. Igbinovia and Babalola are expected to face the winner of the Thursday match between the duo of Nigeria’s Toyin Dairo and Sunday Maku against number two seeded Andrew Anderson and Willem-Petrue Meyer of South Africa. While in the women category, Danbeniya Rebecca of Britain and Snyman Michelle of South Africa have been drawn against the British duo of Homwood Carthy and Youthed Annabel for the semi-finals double today.

At the women singles main draws, Osaro Amadin is drawn against German Franziska Etzel for the quarter-finals ticket. Meanwhile, Orker Secen second round matches are slated for today. Vanguard visits to the venue showed low crowd attendance and disinterest in the persons involved in the championship. Some spectators spoken to attributed the attendance to poor entertainment and side attractions provided by the sponsors, Guinness. According to Miss Uwa Odiase, the promotions done by the the organisers informed us of much fun, but "all we are having is a dry championship. The fun we knew during the 13th National Sports Festival won by Edo State last year is lacking."

Some spectators spoken to attributed the attendance to poor entertainment and side attractions provided by the sponsors, Guinness. According to Miss Uwa Odiase, the promotions done by the the organisers informed us of much fun, but "all we are having is a dry championship. The fun we knew during the 13th National Sports Festival won by Edo State last year is lacking."

What *were* the spectators expecting there? -- An eminem concert to go with the tournament? Elephants walking into the courts with tennis bats? a laser show? It's a tennis satellite, for crying out loud!

Argh, I am starved for news from there and mad. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Jay

OK, some news from India ..

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Hyderabad, Feb 21 (UNI) Top seed Sania Mirza of India entered the quarter-finals of the first leg of the 10,000 USD Nigerian ITF women's tournament being held in Benin city.

Sania outplayed Magy Aziz of Egypt 6-0, 6-3 in a one-sided contest, according to her sponsors here. However, in the doubles quarter-final, she was forced to give a walk-over to her opponents, as her partner Szussanna Babos of Hungary was indisposed with a throat infection

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Go Sania!

Jay

Originally posted by jayakris
What *were* the spectators expecting there? -- An eminem concert to go with the tournament? Elephants walking into the courts with tennis bats? a laser show? It's a tennis satellite, for crying out loud!

Argh, I am starved for news from there and mad. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Jay

ROFL.

PS: Jay, thanks for the update. So the doubles is pretty much wrapped up by the sounds of things but the singles is another story.

Sania :D

Sania :)
Amani :)

For my own sanity and to help others I figured I consolidate the 2nd round results from the various other posts.

2nd round results/matchups

1. Sania Mirza(IND) def Magy Aziz(EGY) 60 63
Q. Michelle Snyman(RSA) vs LL Kathrin Glatz(AUT)
Yoman Farid(EGY) def 3. Chattida Thimjapo(THA) ????
Susanne Aigner(AUT) def Christine Obermoser 36 64 75
Q. Melanie Wolkersberger def. (5) Zsuzsana Babos 62 4:2 w.o. Babos retd.
WC Osaro Amadin vs Franziska Eztel
8. Carly Homewood or Rebecca Dandeniya vs Femi Odeyemi-Musa or Noha Mohsen
Q. Sofia Brun or Jessica Weyreuter vs Amani Khalifa

Susanne AIGNER (WTA 727) - Yomna Farid (EGY, WTA 747) 6:2, 6:1
and also

Sania Mirza beat someone to reach the semis.

Basically
Semi 1
Sania Mirza(IND) vs Susanne Aigner(AUT)

Go Sania :bounce: win this one as well

Full first round results:

(1) Sania Mirza IND d. Q Marielle Weihs AUT 7-5, 7-6(6)
Magy Aziz EGY d. WC Esorae Nosa NGR 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Q Michelle Snyman RSA d. Nicoleta Ratiu ROM 6-3, 6-0
LL Kathrin Glatz AUT d. Q Patricia Mayr AUT 7-5, 6-4

(3) Chattida Thimjapo THA d. WC Omotayo Ibrahim NGR 6-0, 6-2
Yomna Farid EGY d. Q Tereza Svicova CZE 6-3, 3-0 RET
Suzanne Aigner AUT d. LL Susan Okocha NGR 6-1, 6-1
LL Christine Obermoser AUT d. Alexandra Zotta ROM 6-0, 4-1 RET

(5) Zsuzsana Babos HUN d. Annabel Youthend GBR 6-3, 2-0 RET
Q Melanie Wolkersberger AUT d. Q Carina Hirsch AUT 6-4, 6-2
WC Osaro Amadin NGR d. Q Fatima Abinu NGR 6-1, 6-1
Franziska Etzel GER d. LL Patricia Ribeiro POR 6-0, 7-5

Rebecca Dandeniya GBR d. (8) Carly Homewood GBR 6-2, 6-4
Noha Mohsen EGY d. Femi Odeyemi-Musa NGR 6-3, 6-3
Q Sofia Brun SWE d. Jessica Weyreutter ARG 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
Amani Khalifa EGY d. (2) Elisabeth Bahn 7-6(6), 2-6, 6-1

2nd round results

(1) Sania Mirza IND d. Magy Aziz EGY 6-0, 6-3
Q Michelle Snyman RSA d. LL Kathrin Glatz AUT 6-4, 6-1

Yomna Farid EGY d. (3) Chattida Thimjapo THA 7-5, 6-0
Suzanne Aigner AUT d. LL Christine Obermoser AUT 3-6, 6-4, 7-5

Q Melanie Wolkersberger AUT d. (5) Zsuzsana Babos HUN 2-0 RET
WC Osaro Amadin NGR d. Franziska Etzel GER 4-1 RET

Noha Mohsen EGY d. Rebecca Dandeniya GBR 6-4, 6-3
Q Sofia Brun SWE d. Amani Khalifa EGY 6-4, 7-5

Carly :sad:
Femi :sad:
Yomna :D

Doubles Quarter-final results

Dandeniya/Snyman GBR/RSA d. (1) Babos/Mirza HUN/IND 1-1 RET
Homewood/Youthend GBR d. Eke/Izomor NGR 7-5, 6-2

(4) Farid/Khalifa EGY d. Amadin/Odeyemi-Musa W/O
Q Glatz Weihs AUT d. (2) Aigner/Bahn AUT W/O

QF Results

(1) Sania Mirza IND d. Q Michelle Snyman RSA ?????
Suzanne Aigner AUT d. Yomna Farid EGY 62 61
Q Melanie Wolkersberger AUT vs Etzel (GER)
Noha Mohsen EGY vs Q Sofia Brun SWE

why is Sania playing in India though?

Rebecca:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Palicot

WC Osaro Amadin NGR d. Franziska Etzel GER 4-1 RET



:confused:
Aceman says Etzel def. Amadin 4:1 ret. :confused:
Whats right?

Originally posted by coolman
why is Sania playing in India though?

Uhh she's playing in Nigeria.

Maybe you meant why isn't she playing in India. Becuase she had played those players before and won and wanted to get experience some other players and also pick up some points before trying for the $25K-$50K qualies.

She basically should move up to about the 400-450 mark after this set and then has very few points dropping off until the end of the year. She then plans to play in some Grade 1 juniors in Asia and then maybe back to the WTA grind.

She is only allowed a limited number of tourneys (WTA/ITF) that she can play in so I think she wants to mix up variety with the option of picking up some easy points along the way.

Diana Costa withdrew, she must be injured again :mad: :mad: :fiery: :fiery:
There were a lot of other matches with players retiring.

pfff....I hope Amadin won :)

About sania playing there,

Another reason was that she got a wildcard to the Doha WTa qualies and had to miss out on the first week of the India satellites last week. Rather than play just one event in India, she decided to play two in a row in Nigeria. I suspect that she won't be playing satellites for a while if she picks up somewhere around 10 points in these two in Nigera.

Jay

Sorry, my mistake.

Franziska Etzel did defeat Osaro Amadin 4-1 RET

Apologies to everyone.

keep going Sania :D

Originally posted by Palicot
Sorry, my mistake.

Franziska Etzel did defeat Osaro Amadin 4-1 RET

Apologies to everyone.

No problem :)

Sania moves into the final of the Benin City satellite today with an easy win in the semis

Sania Mirza(IND,504) d. Susanne Aigner(AUT,727) 6-1 6-0

good luck in the final Sania :D

Sania :D

Amani :sad:

Good luck in the final, Sania!:D

Final:

Sania Mirza (IND) d. Franziska Etzel (GER) 6-3, 6-3

Make that her 4th ITF satellite title!

Jay

GO SANIA! :D

Welldone Sania :)

Well done Sania

Yomna Farid EGY d. (3) Chattida Thimjapo THA 7-5, 6-0 :(:(:(

Congrats Sania :D

Congrats Sania :D

Does anybody know whom Franziska Etzel defeated in the semis?

Doubles Semi-final results

Dandeniya/Snyman GBR/RSA d. Homewood/Youthend GBR 6-4, 6-0

Q Glatz/Weihs AUT d. (4) Farid/Khalifa EGY 6-2, 3-6, 6-2

Doubles final

Dandeniya/Snyman GBR/RSA d. Q Glatz Weihs AUT 6-4, 6-4

Well done Rebecca and Michelle :D

Franziska Etzel defeated Noha Mohsen EGY 6-3, 6-3 in the semis.

Well done Rebecca and Michelle:)

Thank you Palicot!

Well Done Becky:D

Sania, congrats!:D