Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremskaya defeated American Amanda Anisimova and reached the 1/8 finals of the tournament in Rome.

An intense match lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. Yastremskaya lost the first set, but managed to take the second game in a tie-break and put the squeeze on her opponent in the third set - 4: 6, 7: 6 (3), 6: 4. In the next round, the second racket of Ukraine will meet the second racket of the world, Romanian Simona Halep.

On September 16, its two-time winner - Elina Svitolina will also start at the tournament in Rome.. The rival of the best tennis player in Ukraine will be the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The 1/16 final match starts at 21:30.