Kazakh tennis player Yulia Putintseva defeated American Bernarda Peroy in the first round match of the WTA 1000 Masters tournament in Montreal. This was revealed on August 9 at the end of the meeting.
The sixty-first racket in the world surpassed the fifty-third in the world ranking in two matches. The final score is 6:3, 6:4. The confrontation lasted one hour and twenty-four minutes.
Thus, the 28-year-old Moscow native entered the second round of prestigious competitions. His next opponent will be another US Representative: Jessica Pegula.
Masters in Montreal takes place on outdoor hard courts from August 7-13. The prize fund of the contest is $2,788,468 (267,916,005.44 rubles). The current champion of the tournament is the Romanian Simona Halep.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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