Athletistic/Tennis. The 34th female tennis player in the world, Russian athlete Anastasia Potapova, reached the second round of the WTA-1000 tournament in Doha, Qatar.

In the 1/32 final, she beat the Italian Martina Trevisan, ranked 58th in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. The match lasted 1 hour 43 minutes and ended with Potapova’s victory with a score of 6:4, 6:4. Potapova hit a serve, committed three double faults and used 4 break points out of 12. Trevisan failed to make a single ace, committed four double faults and converted two break points out of eight.

In the next round, Potapova will meet the winner of the match between Anna Kalinskaya (Russia, 40) and Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic, 59).

Recall that initially the Russian’s opponent in the first round was supposed to be Barbora Krejcikova, but the Czech tennis player withdrew from the tournament.

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