Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina lost to her compatriot Lesya Tsurenko in the first round of the main draw of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. The match lasted 1 hour 37 minutes and ended with the victory of Tsurenko with a score of 6:4, 6:3. Note that this was the first face-to-face meeting of tennis players since 2017.. Now, in their personal confrontation, parity has been established - 2: 2. Tsurenko will face American Bernarda Pera in the second round of the competition.. The match will take place on May 12. In total, three Ukrainians will play in the second round of the tournament in Rome.

From this stage of the performance will begin the newly minted first racket of Ukraine Marta Kostyuk and Angelina Kalinina. Another Ukrainian tennis player, Dayana Yastremska, was knocked out in the first round of the competition, losing to Russian Anna Kalinskaya (4:6, 2:6), who, due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, plays in a neutral status. We will remind, earlier Svitolina dramatically stopped a step away from the final at the tournament in France.