The most capable Lithuanian tennis player Ričardas Berankis (ATP-128) will have to jump over a well-known barrier in the first round of the ATP "Challenger" series tournament "Vilnius Open by kevin." - his opponent will be Ainius Sabaliauskas (ATP-1802). This became clear after drawing the "Vilnius Open by kevin" lottery in Vilnius. The confrontation between R. Berankis and A. Sabaliauskas will take place on Tuesday.
Vilius Gaubas (ATP-715) will meet the Frenchman Antoine Escoffier (ATP-211) in the debut of the tournament, and Edas Butvilas (ATP-1587) will fight against the Swiss Johan Nikles (ATP-344). It is interesting that, in case of success, the Lithuanians would play each other in the second round of the tournament.
The first racket of the tournament, the Czech Tomaš Machač (ATP-108) will play against the Norwegian Viktoras Durasovičius (ATP-354), and the Latvian Ernests Gulbis (ATP-300) will play against the Hungarian Mate Valkusz (ATP-250), who recently visited Lithuania during the Davis Cup competition.
In the selection competition, Pijus Vaitiekūnas (ATP-1802) will have to face the Moroccan Elliot Benchetrit (ATP-400) in the first round match, Julius Tverijonas will have a match with the Czech David Poljak (ATP-421), and Tomas Vaišė will play against the second racket of the selection tournament, the Turkish tennis player Cema Ilkel (ATP-362).
The qualifying tournament matches will begin on Sunday at 10.30:XNUMX a.m. P. Vaitiekūnas will play the third match of the day on the central court of "SEB Arena", and after that, T. Vaišė and J. Tverijonas will take the court.
At the beginning of the doubles tournament, the duo of R. Berankis and E. Butvila will face Czech Zdenek Kolar and Indian tennis player Divijas Sharan. V. Gaub and his coach Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, the former 22nd ranked player in the world, will have to face the Italians Julian Ocleppo and Stefano Travaglia.
The prize pool of "Vilnius Open by kevin." consists of 45 euros. The winner will receive 730 ATP ranking points.
The tournament selection competition will take place on October 16-17 in "SEB Arena" in Vilnius. The main tournament will start there on October 17, and the singles final will be played on October 23.
