Sevastova wins WTA’s return match and earns an appointment with Ostapenko / day

Sevastova beat Russian Anastasia Pavlochenkov (WTA 47) with a score of 6-4, 7-5.

Sevastova secured the victory with breaks at the sets. The closest fight was in the fourth set of the second set, where the opponent played eight breaks, preventing Liepaja from reaching 3-1.

Sevastova earned 35 WTA points for reaching the second round, which provides a place in the eighth hundred in the online rank.

In the Madrid WTA 1000, the 18th racing of the planet Ostapenko has been sown with number 23 and is free from the first round.

Sevastova won the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the first round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) last week, but did not finish the second round. Sevastova was not in the WTA before the Madrid tournament, but you can play with a protected ranking position in the Main Event.

Sevastova broke the cross ligaments of the left knee in March last year and did not play for more than a year. Before that, she had almost two years in professional tennis.

Former Latvia’s first racket in Sevastov’s career has won four WTA titles and reached the world rank 11th in 2018.

Sevastova met Pavlochenkov for the first time in 2010 and had lost in all seven previous matches at that time, with only one third set. So far, the last time both tennis players met in the Melbourne Tournament in 2021.

This season, Pavlochenkov fought to the quarter -finals of the Australian Open Championship, but in other tournaments, her success is more modest and the tennis player currently has a four -loss series.

Liepaja has played four times in the tournament in Madrid, fought to the semi -finals in 2017.

The WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid takes place in clay pavement courts.