Sventek beat Vekich and made it to the 1/8 finals of the tennis tournament in Beijing

In one of the top matches of the 1/16 finals of the tournament from the WTA 1000 category with a prize pool of $ 9,415,725 in Beijing, Polish Iga Sventek (WTA: 9) defeated Croatian Donna Vekić (WTA: 40) - 4:6, 7:6 (7:0), 6:2. It's reported by sb.by.

The Croatian tennis player gave one of the main favorites of the competition worthy resistance and was very close to victory, but in the end lost. Vekich left behind the first set, and in the second game she led - 5: 2. But Sventek, when there was nowhere to retreat, mobilized and changed everything.

At the moment, the exit to the 1/8 finals of the competition was issued by Czech athletes Nikola Bartunkova, Linda Noskova, Karolina Mukhova, Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, Mirra Andreeva, Austrian Sinya Kraus, Japanese Naomi Osaka, Polish Iga Sventek, American Iva Jovic and Ukrainian Daria Snigur.

Arina Sobolenko (WTA: 2) after defeating Mexican Renata Sarasua (WTA: 94) (6:1, 6:3) lost to Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic in a duel of 1/16 finals (WTA: 34) (4:6, 3:6). And Alexandra Sasnovich (WTA: 121), who started promotion on the tournament grid from qualification, reached 1/32 finals. The second racket of our country beat the Chinese Junghan Zhang (WTA: 583) (6:2, 6:0), American Varvara Lepchenko (WTA: 189) (6:4, 6:1) and Australian Talia Gibson (WTA: 37) (6:1, 6:4), but could not cope with the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova (WTA: 28) (1:6, 4:6).

China Open matches are played on hard courts. The competition ends on October 11. Last year, the winner of this tournament was American Amanda Anisimova, who in the final broke the resistance of Linda Noskova from the Czech Republic - 6: 0, 2: 6, 6: 2.