The world's number one tennis player is “neutral” Aryna Sabalenka leaves the WTA 1000 tournament in Doha after her opening match
Doha, Qatar • February 5-15 • hard • $3,654,963
Defending champion: Iga Swiatek (Poland)
Tournament draws: qualifying • singles • doubles
Second round
Ekaterina Alexandrova (-) – Aryna Sabalenka (-, 1) 3:6, 6:3, 7:6(5)
The tennis players played each other for the eighth time and Alexandrova won the fourth victory in this confrontation. It should be noted that this is already the sixth victory in a row for her, since before the tournament in Doha she became the champion of the competition in Linz, beating Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska in the final. Here, in her opening match, Alexandrova beat British Emma Raducana.
Aryna Sabalenka lost the second match in a row. She played her previous match in the final of the Australian Open, where she suffered a three-set defeat to American Madison Keys.
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