Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has completed her participation in the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. In the first round match, the Ukrainian lost to “neutral” Anastasia Zakharova.
Yastremska failed to reach the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome for the third time in her career. The Ukrainian tennis player lost to “neutral” Anastasia Zakharova in three sets. The match between the tennis players lasted 2:
How did the match between Yastremska and Zakharova go?
- At the start of the first set, the tennis players exchanged realized break points. Overall, the set was tied at 4:4. After that, Yastremska won the game on her serve, and later, realizing a break point, completed the set with a 6:4 victory.
- At the start of the second set, Yastremska led 3:0. However, Zakharova managed to restore parity in the score, and at the end of the set, it was the “neutral” tennis player who snatched the victory with a score of 7:5.
- In the decisive, third set, the tennis players could not find a stronger one, and the match went to a tiebreak with a score of 6:6. In the tiebreak, Yastremska led 6:1 and was close to winning, but Zakharova managed to equalize the score in the match.
- In the end, it was Zakharova who managed to complete the match with a victory, winning the tiebreak with a score of 8:6.
WTA 1000 Rome. First round
Anastasia Zakharova — Dayana Yastreska (Ukraine) 1:2 (4:6, 7:5, 7:6)
Thus, Yastremska will not be able to join Elina Svitolina, who will only begin her journey in the competition, as well as Oleksandra Oliynykova – she won against Croatian tennis player Petra Marchinko in the first round.
Yulia Starodubtseva and Angelina Kalinina will also play in the first round. Both Ukrainians will find out their opponents after the completion of the qualification, from which Kalinin managed to get into the main draw.
However, Ukraine's second-ranked Marta Kostyuk will not participate in the main draw of the Roman “thousandth man”. The winner of the WTA 1000 in Madrid announced that she will take a break to recover from a right hip injury.