On Wednesday, May 10, Ukrainian tennis players Elina Svitolina (No. 540 WTA) and Lesya Tsurenko (No. 68 WTA) played a match against each other in the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome.
The match lasted 1 hour 37 minutes, and Tsurenko won with a score of 6:4, 6:3.
Ukrainian women held a face-to-face match for the fourth time. The score in personal meetings is 2:2.
In the next match, Tsurenko will play against American Bernarda Peri (No. 32 WTA).
Recall that Elina Svitolina is a former third racket of the world and the best tennis player in the history of Ukraine..
She took a break from her career in March last year, after which she gave birth to a child. In December, it became known that the tennis player resumed training and began to play in tournaments..
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Earlier it was reported that Svitolina for the first time after pregnancy made it to the semifinals of the WTA tournament.