Roland Garros-2022: Kalinina advanced to the second round on the refusal of her opponent, Kostyuk was eliminated

25 May 2022, 06:49 | Sports
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Kalinina, who occupies the 36th place in the world ranking, managed to overcome the starting circle of the tournament. And Kostyuk (No. 58 WTA), unfortunately, stopped the fight after Lesya Tsurenko and Dayana Yastremskaya.

The first opponent of Kalinina at the competition was American Gaylie Batiste (No. 123 WTA), who made it to the main draw through qualification. The fight lasted 39 minutes - the Ukrainian was leading in the first set with a score of 5:2, and then Batiste refused to continue the meeting due to a leg injury.

Kostyuk started the tournament with a match against Egyptian Mayar Sheriff (No. 49 WTA). The fight lasted 1 hour 39 minutes.. Ukrainian tennis player was defeated with a score of 3:6, 5:7.



Thus, only one representative of Ukraine remained at the French Open Tennis Championship.. In the next round, Kalinina will fight against Jessica Pegula from the USA (No. 11 WTA) or Chinese Wang Qiang (No. 129 WTA).

Recall that the main star of Ukrainian tennis Elina Svitolina misses Roland Garros for the first time in 11 years.. Earlier it was reported that the first racket of Ukraine is pregnant. Svitolina and her lover, French tennis player Gael Monfils on Instagram named the gender of the unborn child.




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