Ukrainian tennis player Angelina Kalinina defeated Russian Anna Blinkova in her opening match at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. The 26-year-old native of Novaya Kakhovka missed the first round, and in the second round she left no chance to her opponent from the Russian Federation. The fight lasted an hour and 26 minutes and ended with a confident victory of the Ukrainian with a score of 6:2, 6:2. In the 1/16 finals, Kalinina will fight the winner of the match between American Sofia Kenin and Belarusian Arina Sobolenko. In addition to Angelina, two more Ukrainians continue their performances at the tournament in Rome - Lesya Tsurenko and Marta Kostyuk.

In the second round, on May 12, Tsurenko will face American Bernarda Pera, and Kostyuk will face another US representative, Claire Liu.. Earlier, the main star of Ukrainian tennis Elina Svitolina lost to Tsurenko at the start of the tournament in Rome. Also in the first round of the competition, another Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska flew out, losing to the Russians Anna Kalinskaya. Recall that earlier Svitolina dramatically stopped a step away from the final at the tournament in France.