The first racket of Ukraine Oleksandr Dolgopolov with a confident victory opened the grass season.
In the first round from Kiev met with the 56th-ranked Steve Darcis, received from the organizers of the tournament, the fifth seeded. In personal meetings before today’s match in tennis, there was a balance in 2009 in Geneva won by Darcis, and three years later in Indian wells Dolgopolov took revenge from the Belgian.
The first set Dolgopolov took due to great games at the reception – Ukrainian organized two breaks, and failed to convert four break points. On his serve, Alexander neutralized the single break-point and you pulled a difficult game when the score was 4:2.
In the second set, the players six times and exchanged the won games on his serve. With the score 4:4 Dolgopolov has played a break point, and the tie-break confidently finished off the Darcis.
For a place in the quarterfinals of the grass tournament in the Netherlands Alexander Dolgopolov will compete with the canadian Basecom Pospisil.
Alexander Dolgopolov (Ukraine) — Steve Darsis (Belgium, 5) — 6:2, 7:6
Finalist of the Junior Wimbledon Dayana Yastremsky failed first career win on the grass in the main draw of a WTA tournament. The Nottingham 17-year-old tennis player in two sets without a chance lost 116-th racket of the world Magdalena Rybarikova.
Dayana Yastremsky (Ukraine) To Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) — 1:6, 2:6
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