Athletistic / Tennis. Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova and China’s Yue Yuan to meet in first round of women’s singles at Paris Olympics
SPORT.RU invites you to a live online text broadcast of this match:
2024 Olympic Games. Tennis. First round. Alexandrova – Yuan. Live
Sunday, July 28, will be the second day of play of the Olympic tennis tournament in Paris. Today, all three Russians enter the battle and participate in the Games in neutral status. The most experienced of our tennis players, 29-year-old Ekaterina Alexandrova, will compete for a ticket to the second round with the Chinese Yue Yuan. The rivals have never met before on the WTA tour, although both have been playing at the professional level for a long time.
Alexandrova arrived in Paris as the 28th racket in the world. Ekaterina did not go on the court for more than a month due to an injury. The last match of the Russian was on June 25 at a grass tournament in Bad Homburg. The Olympic tournament is held on clay, where Alexandrova’s game, to tell the truth, has not been going well this year. Judge for yourself: during the clay season, the Russian played 7 singles matches and 2 doubles matches. I managed to win only one thing: against the little-known Spanish player Buksha at the tournament in Strasbourg. In other tournaments, Katya left the race after the first round. So it is with some trepidation that we await today’s match against the Chinese.
Yuan is currently ranked 40th in the WTA rankings and her career-best ranking is 36th. The 25-year-old Yue has only one singles title, which she won in the current season in Austin. A month ago, the Chinese tried to fight against our Daria Kasatkina at the Eastbourne tournament, winning the first set 6:3. But then the Russian got down to business and won two games – 6:4, 6:0. During the Yuan Clay season, there were not enough stars in the sky, but they managed to win a resounding victory. At a tournament in Rouen, France, Yue defeated the Russian-born and now French citizen Varvara Gracheva (6:4, 4:6, 7:6). But in general, the Chinese has been showing poor results in recent months, which is somewhat reminiscent of Alexandrova.
2024 Olympic Games. Tennis. First round. Alexandrova – Yuan. Live
The live online broadcast of this match will start at SPORT.RU July 28 at 13:05 Moscow time
Source: Sport
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