Nigeria advance in Heineken open Abdulmumuni Babalola, who also had a bellow per performance at the just concluded Governor’s Tennis Cup, moved to the second round beating Fabian Roetschi of Switzerland 4-6, 7-6(2) and 6-4. Sadly, Lawal Shehu and Sunday Maku, who played in the main draws, failed to make it to the second round. Shehu lost to Juan-Ignacio Cerda of Chile 6-7, 7-6 and 6-3, while Sunday Maku lost 1-6 and 3-6 to Jasper Smit of the Netherlands. In the lady’s singles, Alice Izomor, Saua Ogundare, Ibrahim Omotayo, Deborah Gbadamosi, Margaret Olagundoye, Olakunbi Abass, Ronke Akingbade and Nosa Esorae all lost their first round matches, save for Osaro Amadin who beat Margaret Olagundoye 6-4,6-4 and Fatimah Abinu, who dispatched her opponent Ronke Akingbade 6-2,6-4 to move into the second rounds. Wednesday’s in the men’s singles includes the following fixtures, Victor Bruthans of Slovakia will meet Oleg Ogordov of Uzbekistan in the second round while Cerda meets James Auckland of Great Britain. Smit meets Raven Klaasen of South Africa, Benjamin Rufer of Switzerland meets Valentin Sanon of Cote d’Ivoire, Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya of India meets Babalola while Arnaud Segodo of Benin Republic, who has changed his name to Johan Mubarak Saeed and is now a citizen of Quatar meets Nigeria’s Igbinovia in a match that promises to be explosive. In the women’s singles, Geraldine Roma of Sweden meets Vasilissa Bardina of Russia, Jennifer Schmidt of Austria meets Agnes Szatmari of Romania, Vannesa Wellauer of Switzerland meets Osaro Amadin, Karin Schlabach of Switzerland meets Yevgeny Savransky of Israel, Franziska Etzel of Germany meets Fatimah Abinu while Katarzyna Siswosz of Poland meets Tiffany Dabek of the United States. Second round and doubles matches continue today.
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