Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (No. 22 WTA) successfully started at the WTA 1000 tournament in Doha (Qatar). 30-year-old native of Odessa won a strong-willed victory over Czech Market Vondroushova (No. 34 WTA). The match lasted 1 hour and 55 minutes. Ukrainian " For time spent on the court, Elina handed over the run once, made 5 double errors and used 5 out of 9 Breek-punts. It was the seventh full -time meeting of tennis players.

Four of these fights ended in favor of Svitolina, a Czech tennis player triumphed three times another three times. Interestingly, Svitolina only for the second time in her career won in the match in which she lost in the first set 0: 6. For the first time, she succeeded in the tournament in Rome in 2018, when she defeated the Russian woman Daria Kasatkin with a score of 0: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3. In the next round of the competition, Elina will meet with the fifth racket of the world American Jessica Pegula.