Madrid Open: Kasatkina into round of 16 after straight-sets win over Tsurenko, no handshake at the end
Daria Kasatkina defeated Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday. She’ll face the winner of the match between No 12 seed Veronika Kudermetova and No 21 seed Anastasia Potapova in the next round
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Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, defeated Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the round of 16 at the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica on Sunday.
There was no handshake between the two players at the end of the match. “What’s more sad it that we are still in war and the Ukranians have reasons not to shake hands with us”, Kasatkina stated after the match. “We waved at each other and I was happy about that…”
Kasatkina, ranked No 8, will play the winner of the match between No 12 seed Veronika Kudermetova and No 21 seed Anastasia Potapova next.
The Russian won against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.
Earlier in the tournament, Tsurenko, ranked No 77, beat Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-1, 6-3) and edged out Swiss Jil Teichmann, the No 25 seed (3-6, 6-2, 6-4).
Madrid WTA 1000, other results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 7.652.174, most recent results first):
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xiyu Wang
- Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera
- Petra Martic vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Jessica Pegula vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Alycia Parks: sunday
- Maria Sakkari (9) beat Rebeka Masarova (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Mayar Sherif beat Caroline Garcia (5): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Paula Badosa (26) beat Coco Gauff (6): 6-3, 6-0
- Mirra Andreeva (WC) beat Magda Linette (17): 6-3, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Jelena Ostapenko (19): 6-2, 6-0
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Camila Osorio (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu (31) beat Shelby Rogers (33): 7-5, 6-2
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