The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina failed to reach the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal, Canada. In the opening round of the competition, Svitolina (No. 26 WTA) lost to American Danielle Collins (No. 48 WTA). The match lasted one hour and 12 minutes and ended with a score of 6:2, 6:2 in favor of the US representative. During the time spent on the court, Elina filed right through three times, made three double faults and did not convert any of the two breakpoints. Note that this was the second face-to-face meeting between Svitolina and Collins in history.. For the first time, tennis players played each other at the beginning of 2020 at the WTA tournament in Brisbane - then the American won in two sets.

In the second round of the tournament in Montreal, Collins will face Maria Sakkari from Greece (No. 9 WTA). Earlier, in the first round of the tournament in Montreal, another Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina was eliminated, losing to American Sloan Stevens with a score of 4:6, 6:7. Later, two more Ukrainian tennis players, Marta Kostyuk and Lesya Tsurenko, will play their matches in the first round of these competitions.. Kostyuk's opponent will be Chinese Zheng Qinwen, while Tsurenko will face Croatian Petra Martic.