The second tennis open tournament – Thanh Danh Cup 2015, opened at Lac Hong Sports Center on August 21, attracted over 150 professional and amateur players from 22 clubs across the country.
The second tennis open tournament – Thanh Danh Cup 2015, opened at Lac Hong Sports Center on August 21, attracted over 150 professional and amateur players from 22 clubs across the country.
At the tournament, the athletes were divided into groups (A, B) based on the professional skill and competed in three events: men’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles.
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Reportedly, the tournament was participated by many good players in Vietnam, such as Nguyen Thi Kim Trang, an outstanding player of Khanh Hoa’s tennis, Tran Quang Phuoc, an excellent player from Soc Trang - who used to gained many championships at the national tournaments, former coach of Vietnam’s tennis team. The participation of these excellent athletes helped to bring an ebullient atmosphere to the tournament as well as draw the attention of the audience. With the tremendous cheer from the audience, the pair Quang Phuoc – Kim Trang (both aged above 40 years old) played hard and won the third place in the mixed doubles event.
Apart from the senior players, the tournament saw the participation of many young players, including Vietnamese-American player, Nguyen Mau Vinh Quang (from Ho Chi Minh City), who was the quarter-finalist at the ITF Junior Circuit – Grade 5 held in Da Nang (2015) and champions at the tournaments for gifted players held in Can Tho and Soc Trang (2014), two Korean-American brothers Nguyen Marshall David and Nguyen Linh Tiffany (from Binh Duong), who are the present champions at U16, U18 national tournaments.
The second tennis open tournament – Thanh Danh Cup 2015 ended successfully on August 23. According to Le Canh Than, General Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Tennis Federation, in recent years, the tennis movement in the province has developed quite well with many tournaments held in the form of socialization. This open tournament was really a useful playground and also an opportunity for the tennis players in Khanh Hoa to exchange and learn experience from the athletes of the strong clubs across the country.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
