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Team Ghana loses to Armenia. Set to play Iceland in their last Group Match

By Gabriel Amoakoh
Team Ghana loses to Armenia. Set to play Iceland in their last Group Match

Ghana women's tennis team lost  their second group  match against Armenia at the ongoing Billie Jean King Cup on Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Earlier on, the team lost their opening group matches against Ireland both in the  singles and doubles.

Team Ghana will face Iceland who have  also lost two of their group matches to Irelend and Armenia. 

In the singles match, Ghana's Grace Tomegah put the team in front after producing a resilient display in the 1st set 6-3 but could not maintain her fine form and lost the second and third sets 0-6, 0-6 respectively to Armenia's Milena Gevorgyan.

Naa Skika Mckorley also lost her game to Armenia's Muradyan Irena 0-6,0-6.

In the  doubles event, the team  just couldn't find the edge to go past the Armenian side as Naa Anyema Mckorley partnered Annette Cruickshank to lose1-6,0-6 to Gabriella Akopyan and  Arevik Tumanyan.