In fact Georgian tennis players have no changes in renovated rating of WTA. Georgian Top seed Anna Tatishvili is still on the 129th place, 12 points for winning of Mallorca tournament (10 000) has not put down to Ekaterine Gorgodze’s rating yet.
129 (129). Anna Tatishvili – 540 points; 192 (193). Oksana Kalashnikova – 310; 234 (239). Maka Chakhnashvili – 235; 280 (278). Sopho Shapatava – 180; 286 (291). Tatia Mikadze – 176; 416 (413). Sopho Kvatsbaia – 87; 592 (591). Manana Shapakidze – 44; 625 (623). Ekaterine Gorgodze – 39; 1154 (1149). Ana Jikia – 3;
There are still two reps of Georgia in ATP rating. Nikoloz Basilashvili is on the 634th place with 31 points and Lado Chikhladze on the 860th place with 11 points.
This week Tatishvili competes at the tournament (100 000 $ prize money) which is underway in the city of Michigan, Midland. She is in the main wrap of Dow Corning Tennis Classic and her first rival will be found out after finishing the first qualifying round.
There are quite strong tennis players in Midland. Twelve tennis players have better rating than Georgian tennis player has. Four of them are in the top 100. Those are the following- Varvara Lepchenko (75, the U.S.), Rebeca Marino (84, Canada), Evgenya Rodina (90, Russia) and Sorana Korstea (93, Romania). It is worth mentioning that Tatishvili competed at Michigan tournament last year and then she managed only to go through one round. But this time she has good chance.
Ekaterine Gorgodze and Sopho Kvatsbaia winners of Mallorca tournament are staying there. They will compete at the tournament which is to be held in Balearic Islands (prize money 10 000). Gorgodze is in the main wrap and Kvatsbaia starts competition from qualifying round. Giorgi Tsivadze managed to go through main wrap at the tournament which is underway in the city of Turkey, Antalya (10 000 prize money), he won 3 matches.
Tsivadze won over Australian Blake Mott 7:6 (7:2), 6:4, then beat Dmitry Sitak 6:3, 6:2 and in the third match he won over German Richard Beker – 6:2, 6:0. Her next rival is not known yet.
