MOSCOW, Aug 16 Anastasia Potapova and Anna Kalinskaya at a tennis tournament in Cincinnati, USA, on the grounds that the size of the canvas exceeded the permitted competition regulations, journalist Ben Rotenberg said on his Twitter. Potapova and Kalinskaya met in the final qualification of the WTA 1000 category tournament. Earlier, Rotenberg said that during match, one of the tennis players drew the judge's attention to a fan with the flag of Ukraine in the stands. The match referee asked the fan to remove the flag, but she refused, then she was forced to leave the podium. The girl began to walk with the flag around the territory of the tennis complex, until one of the security officers asked her to remove the flag, which she did. After that, she was allowed to return to the stands. «He (the security officer) showed a document with the rules and told her that the size of her flag exceeded the established size of 18×18 inches (18 inches — about 46 cm)», Rotenberg wrote. Kalinskaya won the match with a score of 7:5, 6:1, but Potapova also got into the main draw of the tournament as a «lucky loser».
