Alexandrova advanced to the second round of Roland Garros, Kudermetova was eliminated from the tournament
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Russian tennis player Ekaterina Aleksandrova advanced to the second round of Roland Garros, while Veronika Kudermetova was eliminated in the first round. Thus, 14 out of 15 Russian tennis players have so far managed to get into the next stage of the competition, and three more are expected to play.
Ekaterina Aleksandrova (23rd place in the WTA ranking) defeated Victoria Tomova from Bulgaria (72nd place) with a score of 6:1, 2:6, 6:1. In the next round, the Russian will face Anna-Lena Friedsam from Germany. Veronika Kudermetova (11th racket of the world) lost to Anna Karolina Shmidlova from Slovakia (100th place). The match ended with the score 6:3, 6:1 in favor of the representative of Slovakia.
In addition to Ekaterina Aleksandrova, Daria Kasatkina, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Diana Schneider, Elina Avanesyan, Varvara Gracheva, Anna Blinkova, Lyudmila Samsonova, Anastasia Potapova, Kamilla Rakhimova entered the second round of Roland Garros. Andrey Rublev, Aslan Karatsev, Karen Khachanov, Alexander Shevchenko won in the first round among men. Daniil Medvedev and sisters Erika and Mirra Andreeva have not yet competed in the first stage of the competition. Anna Kalinskaya withdrew due to injury.
Roland Garros is the second Grand Slam of the season. Runs on dirt. The prize pool is €49.6 million.
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