Sloan Stevens goes ahead, Plushkova is gone
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US Open Tennis Champion Sloane Stevens qualified for the third round of the Red Court Tournament in the Italian capital Rome with a prize pool of 2, 7 million euros. The 9th-placed American beat Kaya Kanepi (Estonia) with 6:0, 5:7, 6:4. Stevens will play against the seventh in the Caroline Garcia (France), which won 6:3, 6:4 against Timea Babos (Hungary). Number 6 Carolina Plishkova dropped into the second round after losing by Maria Sakari (Greece) with 6:3, 3:6, 5:7 for 2:21 in a disputed match. She was extremely angry after the match mentioned by sport live stream and hit her rocket in the judge`s chair. The reason was judgment, which was decisive for the final outcome. At 5:5 and Plushkova`s service, she finished a ball that hit the inside of the line but was down. After long quarrels on the part of Carolina, the decision left off, and that meant a breakthrough. Sakary won the next point and break, and in the next game ended the game.
Daniela Kasatkinina (Russia) defeated Daniel Collins (USA) with 6:2, 6:3 and Annette Contaweit (Estonia) eliminated Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova with 7:5, 7:5. Johanna Conta (Great Britain) is also ahead of Su-Wei Sie (Taiwan) with 6:0, 6:4.
World champion Simona Halep (Romania) qualified for the third round earlier today.
Last year`s champion defeated Japanese Naomi Osaka with 6:1, 6:0. Romania`s next rival will be number 13 Madison Keynes (USA), who eliminates Dona Vekic (Croatia) 7-6 (2), 7-6 (0) after nearly two hours of play.
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