A major tennis tournament with a prize fund of about $8.8 million continues in Indian Wells, USA. The second racket of the world, Belarusian Arina Sobolenko, successfully started the competition in the women’s singles category.
In the second round match, our athlete did not experience any particular difficulties in the fight against the Russian Evgenia Rodina (427th in the WTA rating) – 6:2, 6:0. The next opponent of the Belarusian will be Lesya Tsurenko (95) from Ukraine.
But Alexandra Sasnovich (44) leaves the competition at the stage of the second round. Our athlete could not beat Elena Ostapenko (25) from Latvia – 5:7, 6:3, 2:6. Victoria Azarenka (14) will play against Czech Karolina Muchova (76) in the second round.
In men’s singles, Belarusian Ilya Ivashko (85th in the ATP rankings) quite unexpectedly advanced to the third round, becoming stronger than Dutchman Botik Van de Zandshulp (33) – 7:5, 3:2 (refusal). The next opponent of our athlete will be the sixth racket of the world Russian Daniil Medvedev.
The tournament in Indian Wells will last until March 19.
