Kozlova and Kostyuk updated their personal records in the WTA ranking

05 February 2018, 12:28 | Sports 
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Katerina Kozlova made a jump to 20 positions at the expense of reaching the final of the WTA International tournament in Taipei and debuted in the top 70, becoming the 65th racket of the world. By the way, a tennis player from Nikolaev became the third racket of Ukraine, second only to Elina Svitolina and Lesja Tsurenko.

In turn, Marta Kostyuk became the champion of the 60-thousand in Bernie and improved her rating position on the 58th line. Young Ukrainian from Monday became the 185th racket of the world and entered the top 5 of the best tennis players in the world in the category U-18.

The great perseverance and rapid progress of 15-year-old Marta will allow her to directly qualify for the Grand Slam series.

By the way, in the top 10 there was only one change - Julia Gerges made her debut in the top ten of the world ranking, replacing therefrom who failed to defend the title in St. Petersburg, Kristina Mladenovic. She became the sixth tennis player after Elina Svitolina, Elena Ostapenko, Caroline Garcia, Kristina Mladenovic and Coco Vandevege, who debuted in the top 10 from the beginning of last season.

As previously reported, "URA-Inform", the first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina played the semi-final match of the WTA tournament against the fourth racket of the world by Carolina Plishkova.

Источник: УРА-Информ