Athletistic/Tennis. Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova failed to beat Spaniard Sarah Sorribes-Tormo in the first match of the Mutua Madrid Open.

The match lasted 2 hours 22 minutes and ended with Sorribes-Tormo winning 6:3, 2:6, 6:3. Because of the Spanish tennis player – not a single ace, 5 double faults and 7/11 break points made. Pavlyuchenkova filled in once the whole match, committed 5 double faults and converted 6 break points out of 14.

In the match of the 1/16 finals of the tournament, Sorribes-Tormo will meet Japan’s Naomi Osaka, who in the final round of 1/32 beat another Russian woman – Anastasia Potapova – with the score 6:3, 6 :1 . The match between Osaka and Sorribes-Tormo will take place on May 1.