Victim of a violent panic attack, Lesia Tsurenko forfeited a few minutes before her match against Aryna Sabalenka on Monday in the third round of the WTA 1000 in Indian Wells. Of course, the nationality of his opponent, Belarusian, “adds stress and apprehension” in the context of the war in Ukraine, she admits, but the 33-year-old Ukrainian player, currently 95th in the world (23rd in 2019), sees it above all as the consequence of a discussion “shocking”a few days earlier, with Steve Simon, the boss of the WTA.
