Ukrainian tennis players continue with varying degrees of success to perform at the ATP and WTA.
Lesia Tsurenko in two hours of confrontation defeated American Christina McHale and reached the second round of the WTA Premier event in Moscow.
The fan at the end of the first set on his serve played a five set balls, after which put the squeeze on the opponent in the tie-break. In the second set, trailing 2:3, Tsurenko has won four consecutive games and ended the match in their favor.
Next opponent Lesia Tsurenko at the Kremlin Cup will become the second racket of the tournament Coco Vandeweghe.
Lesya Tsurenko (Ukraine) – Christina McHale (USA) – 7:6, 6:3
Sergiy Stakhovsky overcame the barrier starting at the tournament of the ATP 250 in Antwerp, Belgium. In the first round Kiev shamed the bookmakers who considered him an outsider in the match with American Jared Donaldson.
The first set, Stakhovsky won the tiebreak and in the second game when the score was 4:4 made the break from the first match-bol completed the match in their favor.
In the second round the Ukrainian will play against Benoit Paire or Joao Souza.
Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) – Jared Donaldson (USA) – 7:6, 6:4
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