Athletistic / Tennis. On October 3, the matches of the second round of the WTA-1000 tournament will take place in Beijing (China). In one of them, the first racket in the world, Belarusian tennis player Arina Sabalenka, broke the resistance of the British Katie Boulter (56th world ranking) in two sets with a score of 7:5, 7:6 (7-2). .

The duration of the match was 2 hours 31 minutes. Sabalenka completed eight serves, committed seven double faults and converted 3 breaks out of 12 break points. Boulter has five aces, six errors on his serve and two break points out of 12 possible.

In the 1/8 finals of the tournament in the capital of the Celestial Empire, Arina Sabalenka will face the Italian Yasmina Paolini. The prize fund for the Beijing 2023 competition is $8.13 million.


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