“Yulia in the status of Urdrdog overcame Lyudmila Samsonov and reached the 1/8 finals of the thousand”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
In the 3rd Round, the Ukrainian in the status of the underordog beat the “neutral” 20th racket of the world Lyudmila Samsonov in 2 hours and 32 minutes.
WTA 1000 Madrid. Soil. 1/16 finals
Yulia Starodubtseva (Ukraine) [Q] – Lyudmila Samsonova – 2: 6, 7: 6 (7: 2), 6: 0
In the second party, Starodubtsev was inferior to 1: 3 with a break, and in the 11th game she was able to play four hidden matches.
It was the first meeting of rivals.
The next opponent of Yulia will be the seventh Siyan Mirra Andreeva (WTA 7), who, like Samsonova, is a representative of the country 404 in “neutral” status.
Starodubtsev in Madrid started in the qualification, where Khloe pack and Elz Jakemo passed. In addition to Samsonova, Yulia also overcome Linda Frugwwwirtov and Elizabeth Cockharett.
Starodubtseva won the WTA Reriper for the second time in her career. The first was Anna Kalinskaya, which Julia overcame for thousands of Beijing. At that time, Kalinsk was the 14th racket of the world.
For the second time, Julia managed to win three matches in the main grid of the WTA tournament. In October, she got the quarterfinals in Beijing.