Eight Romanians progress to M15 Cluj-Napoca second round

Eight Romanian players advanced to the second round of the W15 Cluj Napoca, Tiriac Foundation Trophy, ITF tournament, prize money USD 15,000, organised by CS Winners Tennis Club, four on Tuesday and four on Wednesday.

Third seed Stefan Palosi, Radu Mihai Papoe (6th), Radu David Turcanu and Mihai Razvan Marinescu got their wins on Wednesday, joining top seed Cezar Cretu, Stefan Adrian Andreescu (5th), Rares Teodor Pieleanu and Cezar Gabriel Papoe.

All the second-round fixtures will feature a Romanian.

Wednesday's results:

Singles, first round

N.6 Radu Mihai Papoe beat Samuil Konov (Bulgaria) 6-3 6-1

N.3 Stefan Palosi beat Calin Teodor Stirbu 6-4 6-2

Oskar Grzegorzewski (Poland) beat Andrea Bacaloni (Italy) 7-6 (8/6) 6-4

Radu David Turcanu beat Dean Thurner (Germany) 6-0 6-1

N.7 Joao Eduardo Schiessl (Brazil) beat Vlad Cristian Breazu 6-4 6-4

N.8 Ilia Snitari (Moldova) beat Ioan Alexandru Chirita 2-6 6-3 6-3

Mihai Razvan Marinescu beat Edoardo De Filippo (Italy) 3-6 6-0 6-1

N.4 Kirill Kivattsev (Russia) beat Jonathan Mridha (Sweden) 6-4 6-4

Noah Perfetti (Italy) beat Sven Corbinais (France) 6-2 6-2

Noah Thurner (Germany) beat Dmitry Kopilevich (Slovenia) 6-1 6-4

Doubles, first round

Calin Teodor Stirbu (Romania)/Dominic Ducariu (Germany) beat N.3 Alexandru Cristian Dumitru/Mihai Razvan Marinescu 6-3 7-5

Stefan Adrian Andreescu/Andrei Cuceu beat Dean Thurner (Germany)/Arturs Zagars (Latvia) 6-1 6-0

Ioan Alexandru Chirita/Radu Mihai Papoe beat Bruno Kokot (Poland)/Giuseppe La Vela (Italy) 6-2 6-4

Matei Cristian Onofrei/Rares Teodor Pieleanu beat N.2 Cezar Cretu/Nicholas David Ionel 4-6 7-6 (7/5) 10-8.