The Kazakh tennis player consumes her first major defeat in her career in Cincinnati. Rybakina was forced to withdraw in the middle of the second set, thus giving up the victory against Jasmine Paolini (6-4, 2-5, ret) after 1h16min of good tennis.
WTA Cincinnati Results
Elena Rybakina faced the second of the matches corresponding to a new edition of a WTA 1000 tournament in the city of Cincinnati in this month of August 2023. She did so after continuing in the final women’s draw, where she would have to face off in the round of 16. final against the Italian tennis player Jasmin Paolini. The Kazakh player came to this confrontation after having beaten in her debut Jelena Ostapenko. For her part, the Italian tennis player came to this match after having previously done the same against Marta Kostyuk and Cristina Bucsa. Inside of the head to head there is only one precedent between both tennis playersand it was the one that took place in 2023. On that occasion the racket from Kazakhstan would be the winner.
Elena Rybakina begins by commanding
The match started strong for Jasmine Paolini. The Italian player got the first game of the match. At the moment Elena Rybakina would respond, who would chain two consecutive games with a break included. In the same way, Paolini would respond, who equalized the score. Despite that, the number four in the world had a streak of three consecutive games, thus adding another break and leaving the score at 5-3. She would shyly seek to cut differences Jasmine, although it would be useless. With a single set point in her favor, Elena left a 6-4 in her favor to dominate in the first set.
The Kazakh racket suffers an unexpected withdrawal
For the start of the second set, it would once again be Jasmine Paolini who would start commanding the initial score. The Italian player managed to win the first three games of the match, with a break through. At the moment Elena Rybakina would respond, following one another a brief exchange of winning hits. As the crash progressed, Elena seemed not to be feeling entirely comfortable physically. It was for this reason that after Paolini placed the 5-2 in her favor, Rybakina approached the chair umpire to announce her withdrawal. Despite having won the first set, the world number 4 granted Jasmine Paolini a pass to the next round of the tournament in the United States.
2023-08-17 20:34:01
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