Ukrainian tennis player Angelina Kalinina withdrew due to injury during the final match of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. The 26-year-old native of Nova Kakhovka in the decisive match met with the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina. Kalinina lost in the first set with a score of 4:6. In the second set, the Ukrainian lost the first game, after which she took a medical time-out. After consulting with a doctor, Angelina decided to end the match ahead of schedule due to a leg injury.. Video review of the match.

Note that Kalinina played in the final of the WTA 1000 level tournament for the first time in her career.. Angelina is only the second Ukrainian tennis player in history to achieve this achievement. Before her, only the main star of Ukrainian tennis and the former third racket of the world, Elina Svitolina, managed to do this.. On the way to the final, Kalinina defeated Russian Anna Blinkova, defeated the Australian Open 2020 champion and former world No. 4 American Sofia Kenin, won a strong-willed victory over American Madison Keys, won a thriller match against Beatrice Haddad Maia from Brazil and defeated Russian Veronika Kudermetova. Recall that four more Ukrainians competed at the tournament in Rome. Elina Svitolina and Dayana Yastremskaya were eliminated in the first round of the main draw, while Marta Kostyuk and Lesya Tsurenko were eliminated at the 1/16 final stage.