Sevastova loses the first round of Rome’s WTA 1000 tournament / day

Sevastova is ranked 580 in the WTA ranked in this tournament with a protected rank, which allows her to participate in the Main Event. The Italian ranks 58th in the WTA.

For participation in the first round, Sevastova earned ten WTA ranked points, which has allowed 536th place in the online rankings.

Sevastova had not played with a brondja so far.

Both tennis players also played in Rome before the tournament in Madrid’s WTA 1000, where Sevastova reached the third round, but the brondze lost in the second match, with Naomi Osaka, a former leader in the first round.

Sevastova played six times in the tournament in Rome and achieved the best result in 2018, when he fought to the semi -finals. The brondum has previously played four times in this tournament and had lost in the first matches.

Latvia’s first racket Alona Ostapenko (WTA 18) will also compete in the tournament, free from the first round, but in the second she will meet Slovakian Rebecca Shramkov (WTA 41) or American Macartni Kesler (WTA 44).

This week’s Roman tournament is the last « WTA 1000 » level before the upcoming French Open Championship in the second half of May. In the tournament, matches are held in clay pavement courts.