Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko went to the second round of the ground-breaking tournament WTA Premier 5 in Rome.
In the starting round, the tennis player defeated Italian representative Deboru Chiesu with a score of 7: 5. 6: 2.
The match lasted 1 hour 30 minutes.
In the first game Ukrainian was inferior to 1:
5, but she managed to take six games in a row. At the same time, Tsurenko played three set-balls with a score of 4: 5.
In the second round of the tournament, Lesya will meet with the winner of the pair Yaroslav Shvedov (Kazakhstan) - Venus Williams (USA).
Note that from the second round of the tournament starts Elina Svitolina, and Ekaterina Bondarenko could not overcome the qualification.
Recall, Tsurenko is now at the 41st position in the world ranking.