Tennis in Ukrainian, Svitolina snatched a place in the third round of the tournament in Rome

The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina incredible efforts netted first victory at the clay tournament in Rome WTA Premier 5 with prize money of €3,076,495.

The status of the eighth racket of tournament Svitolina missed the first round and the second round of the Kharkov waited Alize cornet. Tennis players for the fourth time met at the level of the WTA tour – their first two matches took Root, but at Roland Garros in 2015 were stronger than Svitolina.

The beginning of the match was tough for Svitolina – Root regularly well-executed drop shots, which did a back break in the fifth game. With the score 4:3 Svitolina missed break-point. A few minutes later, the Ukrainian woman of their mistakes are not repeated Elina has earned a triple set ball and at the second attempt, waited on the opponents the decisive error.

The second set is in danger of becoming one of the longest in the season. Svitolina and the Root was out for 1 hour and 34 minutes. During this time period Ukrainka did a back break, he played four break points, but on tie-break with the fourth match ball and sent the ball just below the line.

Successful start in Rome did Svitolina sixth player of the season, scored at least 2000 points. This allows the first racket of Ukraine to enter top-5 Championship race WTA.

For the quarter-finals in Rome Elina Svitolina argue with the 60-th racket of the world from Germany, Mona Barthel, the current winning streak which is 12 matches.

Elina Svitolina (Ukraine,8) – Alize Cornet (France) – 6:4, 7:6

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