MOSCOW, August 31 Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina lost to French tennis player Clara Burel in the first round of the US Open, the final Grand Slam of the season, held on hard courts in New York.Grand SlamsUS Open WTAAugust 30, 2022 • start at 21:00FinishedElena RybakinaKazakhstan0 : 24:64:6Clara BurelFranceThe match ended with a score of 6:4, 6 :4 in favor of Burel, the 131st racket of the world. Rybakina is ranked 25th in the WTA rankings. Tennis players spent 1 hour and 31 minutes on the court. In the second round, Burel will play with the Belgian Alison Van Uytvank, who defeated the 42-year-old American Venus Williams, who won the US Open twice (2000, 2001), in two sets. Rybakina is a native of Moscow, until 2018 she represented Russia. In June 2018, she changed her sports citizenship to Kazakhstan. In July, Rybakina became the winner of the Wimbledon tournament.
