The first racket of Ukraine Angelina Kalinina became the finalist of the WTA 125 tournament in Limoges.

The Ukrainian, who received the fifth seed, met with the Russian Anna Blinkova in the semifinals and won with a score of 7:5, 6:4.

Video review of the match.

It is worth noting that the tennis players met each other for the sixth time and for the first time the victory was celebrated by a Ukrainian.

For Kalinina, this will be the first final of the current season and the second decisive match in her career at the WTA level.. Previously, she played in the final of the WTA 250 tournament in Budapest..

In the final, the Ukrainian tennis player will meet with the representative of Denmark, Clara Tauson, who beat the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in the second round..

It is worth noting that Kostyuk, together with the representative of Georgia Oksana Kalashnikova, made it to the doubles final in Limoges - the girls will fight for the title with the representatives of Great Britain Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls.

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Earlier it was reported that tournaments in Russia were not included in the women's tennis calendar for 2023..