Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya reached the quarter-finals of the tournament in Osaka (Japan), beating the British Harriet Dart in the second round.
In the first set, the Russian showed himself stronger in the tiebreaker and confidently won the second set with a score of 6:2. The match lasted 1 hour 44 minutes.
In the quarterfinals, Kalinskaya will meet the winner of the duo Ashlyn Kruger (USA) – Jessica Ponchet (France). The two tennis players are not in the top 100 in the world rankings.
Earlier, another representative of Russia, Valeria Savinykh, lost heavily to Yulia Putintseva from Kazakhstan in the second round – 1:6, 2:6.
WTA 250. Japan Open Tennis Championship. Osaka (Japan). Hard. Prize fund – more than 259 thousand dollars
2nd round
Anna Kalinskaya (Russia) – Harriet Dart (Great Britain) – 7:6 (7:5), 6:2
Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan, 6 years old) – Valéria Savinykh (Russia) – 6:1, 6:2
Source : MatchTV
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