Ukrainian tennis player Tsurenko reaches main draw of Wuhan tournament after defeating Russian opponent
Pravda Ukraine
Ukrainian tennis player Lesia Tsurenko (88) has defeated neutral competitor Erika Andreeva (67), who holds a Russian passport, in the final of the WTA 1000 qualifying tournament in Wuhan, China.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda’s holding company
Details: The match lasted 2 hours and 17 minutes and ended with a score of 7- 6, 7-5. Tsurenko did not serve a single ace (5 aces for her opponent), made 9 double faults (1 for the Russian) and used 4 out of 11 break points (3 out of 11 for her opponent).
Tsurenko is playing at this tournament for the first time since 2018. Her best result was a second-round finish in 2017.
Background: Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva will also play her final qualifying match. On 3 October, she advanced to the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing, where she was defeated by world number six Coco Gauff.
This result secured Yuliia Starodubtseva, 24, a spot in the top 100 of the WTA rankings for the first time in her career.
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