Athletistic/Tennis. In the semifinals of the WTA-1000 tournament in Rome on clay, Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina defeated Latvian representative Elena Ostapenko and reached her fourth final of the season.
The match was played in two sets, which ended with the score 6:2, 6:4 in favor of Rybakina. The second set was suspended for an hour due to rain.
In the final, Rybakina will play against Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina, who beat Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the semifinals with a score of 7:5, 5:7, 6:2. The final meeting will take place on Saturday, May 20 and will start at 8:00 p.m. Moscow time. In addition, semi-final matches in the men’s category are scheduled for that day.
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Source: Sport

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