Lesya Tsurenko starts from the first round, Katerina Bondarenko and Alexander Dolgopolov - with qualification. From 13 to 21 May in Rome will be the prestigious tennis tournament Internazionali BNL d'Italia series WTA Premier 5 and ATR 1000. The prize fund of women's competitions is $ 3,076,495, for men - € 4,273,775. All matches will be held on the ground. The current champions are Andy Murray and Serena Williams. The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina, who received the eighth seeding number, will miss the first round and will start the competition immediately from the second round, where her rival will be either the Frenchwoman Alize Cornet (1-2) or Italian Sarah Errani (0-2). Note that for Svitolina this ground-winning tournament will be the third this year. Previously, she won the title in Istanbul and was defeated in the first round of the tournament in Madrid. Lesia Tsurenko will start the tournament in Rome with a match against Italian tennis player Deborah Chiesa (420th in the WTA rankings), who received a wild card in the main grid.

Another Ukrainian Katerina Bondarenko starts with qualification and will play against the US representative Varvara Lepchenko (67th in the rating of the organization). As for the men's rank, Alexander Dolgopolov will also start the tournament with qualifications, where he will meet with the representative of Barbados Dorian King, who occupies the 106th place in the world ranking. Earlier iSport. Ua reported that Alexander Dolgopolov failed to break into the main grid tournament in Madrid.

Original article: Svitolina will start the performance in Rome from the second round.