The strongest tennis player of Ukrainian Elina Svitolina for the first time in his career, will play in the quarterfinals at a major clay tournament in Rome WTA Premier 5 with prize money of €3,076,495.
For an exit in the quarterfinals of the Ukrainian competed with the 60th-ranked German Mona Barthel, who to fight against Svitolina came up with an impressive 12-match winning series. Elina in personal meetings led 2:1, but the last time tennis players met three years ago.
During the start of the set, Svitolina led to a break 3:2, but frankly loosely was held at the end of the party, and naturally was one step away from relegation from the tournament.
Radical changes in the scenario of the match came with the first draw of the second set Svitolina played a much more aggressive, what Bartel was not ready. The German began to regularly make a mistake and give the opponent a comfortable environment for attacks from the backhand. Svitolina 27 minutes took six games in a row and took the lead.
At the start of the decisive set Barthel missed the break point and finally fell apart. To finish off a demoralized opponent Svitolina was more labor – Ukrainka took six games in a row and came in the quarterfinals of the “Italian Open”.
Victory over Mona Barthel allowed Elina Svitolina to climb to fourth place in Champion race WTA. Next opponent Ukrainka will be the winner of the match between Timea Bacsinszky and Karolina Pliskova.
Elina Svitolina (Ukraine, 8) — Mona Barthel (Germany) — 3:6, 6:0, 6:0
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