Tennis:Clijsters the younger makes early exit at Les Ormes

Tennis:Clijsters the younger makes early exit at Les Ormes

She was beaten in straight sets by England’s Kirsty Woolley 6-2, 6-1.The other 15 seeded players all came through and today played each other for the eight places left in the tournament, before joining the competition’s top 24 seeds, in the main draw, tomorrow.According to LTA County Development Officer for the Channel Islands, and event organiser Hugh Raymond: ‘The standard is excellent, but it seems the longer the tournament goes on, with each match the players raise their game yet again.’At least two English players are certain of being in the last eight of this preliminary round, as Woolley meets Chantal Coombs and Karen Patterson meets Anna Hawkins later this afternoon.However, for Britain’s Alice Mackenzie the tournament is now over as she lost 6-2, 6-1 to qualifying’s top seed Tessy Van de Ven, from Holland, earlier this afternoon.Play tomorrow, when the competition moves to the top 24 seeds plus eight qualifiers, begins at noon and again at 6 pm.

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