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Ukrainian tennis player Svitolina wins WTA tournament

The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina became the champion of the WTA tournament in Australian Brisbane.

This is reported in Twitter competitions. In the final, the Ukrainian outplayed the Belarusian tennis player Alexandra Sasnovich with a score of 6: 2; 6: 1.

The fight lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes, during this time Elina served 8 aces, committed 2 double errors, and also won 63 percent of the first innings. Sasnovich never served for a flight, commited three double mistakes.
These tennis players did not play each other before. Svitolina will receive more than 190 thousand dollars in prize money and 470 points in the WTA rating for winning the tournament. Thus, the Ukrainian at the first tournament in the season produces a trophy. Last year, Svitolina won 5 WTA tournaments. Recall, that Svitolina reached the finals of the tournament, having beaten the fourth racket of the world Czech Karolina Plishkov with a score of 7: 5; 7: 5.

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Image credits: theverge.com.
Source: rbc.ua.
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