Eight Romanian tennis players won on Wednesday in the first round of the M15 ITF tournament in Bistrita, prize money USD 15,000 .
In the round of 16 there will be two Romanian duels: top seed Filip Jianu will face Dragos Nicolae Cazacu, and second seed Gabi Boitan will meet Gabriel Ghetu.
Third seed Cezar Cretu, eighth seed Bogdan Pavel, and Mihai Razvan Marinescu and Radu David Turcanu also progressed to the second round.
Wednesday’s results:
Singles, first round
N.1 Filip Cristian Jianu (No. 1) beat Pietro Orlando Fellin (Italy) 6-4 6-4
Dragos Nicolae Cazacu beat Radu Valentin Filipache 6-1 6-2
Radu David Turcanu beat Jeremy Schifris (Germany) 6-1 6-2
Max Schoenhaus (Germany) beat N.7 Stefan Adrian Andreescu 6-4 6-
N.3 Cezar Cretu beat Moise Kouame (France) 6-2 6-3
Samuil Konov (Bulgaria) beat Nicolas Garcia Longo (Argentina) 3-6 6-2 7-6 (7/3)
Noah Perfetti (Italy) beat Mihai Vlad Rosu-Mares 6-1 6-1
N.8 Bogdan Pavel beat Amaury Raynel (France) 3-6 6-3 6-3
Chirag Duhan (India) beat N.5 Stefan Palosi (No.5) 2-6 7-5 5-2 (Palosi withdrew)
Abel Forger (Netherlands) beat Cezar Stefan Bentzel 2-6 6-1 6-3
Lorenzo Angelini (Italy) beat Leonardo Borrelli (Italy) 4-6 6-3 6-2
N.4 Piotr Nesterov (Bulgaria) beat Kasra Rahmani (Iran) 4-7 6-2 6-2
N.6 Luca Castagnola (Italy) beat Reda Bennani (Morocco) 6-4 6-4
Mihai Razvan Marinescu beat Vladimir Anatol Grintescu 6-3 6-3
Gabriel Ghetu beat Enrico Baldisserri (Italy) 6-2 6-3
N.2 Gabi Adrian Boitan beat Calin Apostol 6-2, 6-3.
