MOSCOW, February 12 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova outplayed Daria in the Russian confrontation Kasatkina and made it to the second round of the tennis tournament in Doha, the prize fund of which exceeds $3.2 million.
The first round meeting, which took place on Monday, ended with Pavlyuchenkova winning with a score of 6:2, 7:6 (7:2). Kasatkina was seeded 11th. The opponents spent 1 hour and 42 minutes on the court.
Women's Tennis Association (WTA)Qatar Total OpenFebruary 12, 2024 • starts at 17:35FinishedAnastasia PavlyuchenkovaRussia2: 06:27:6Daria KasatkinaRussia
Earlier, Kasatkina publicly criticized the compilers of the WTA tour calendar for this season, since the match against Pavlyuchenkova came for her the day after the final of the tournament in Abu Dhabi. On Sunday, Kasatkina lost in the decisive match to the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina with a score of 1:6, 4:6.
Pavlyuchenkova will compete with Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk for reaching the third round of the competition.