Athletistic/Tennis. Russian tennis player Lyudmila Samsonova, ranked 15th in the world rankings, faced defeat at the opening of the WTA-1000 tournament in Miami.

In the second round, Samsonova’s opponent was the 68th world racket from Kazakhstan, Yulia Putintseva. The score of the match is 6:1, 4:6, 6:3 in favor of Putintseva.

The match between Samsonova and Putintseva lasted 2 hours and 23 minutes. Samsonova had an ace, committed eight double faults and converted three break points out of six won. Putintseva had two aces, no double faults and converted 6 out of 14 possible break points.

For Samsonova, this is already the third defeat in a row in WTA tournaments. Previously, she lost to Japanese Naomi Osaka at the start of the WTA-1000 tournament in Indian Wells and to Czech Marketa Vondrousova in the third round of the WTA-1000 tournament in Dubai.

  • Kudermetova lost to Xinyu Wang and was eliminated from the Miami Masters



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