The strongest tennis player in Ukraine, Elina Svitolina (9th in the WTA ranking), who defeated the 4th racket of the world, Coco Gauff from the USA, in a very difficult three-hour semifinal, failed to become the winner of the prestigious WTA 1000 tournament worth 4 million 88 thousand dollars for the third time in her career.
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In the decisive match, the 31-year-old Odessa woman, tired, lost in two games to her American counterpart, the billionaire's daughter Jessica Pegula (5th) — 2:6, 4:6. The score of the rivals' personal meetings was 6:3 in favor of the American.
The first appearance in the final in the Emirates in eight years brought Svitolina $385,000 in prize money and 650 rating points.
We should add that Elina Svitolina, who also defeated Spaniard Paula Badosa (70th), Olympic champion from Switzerland Belinda Bencic (13th) and Croatian Antonija Ružić (67th) on her way to the final, failed to repeat her 2018 success in the Emirates. In total, the Ukrainian lost her fifth of 24 finals at WTA tournaments.
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Previously, “FACTS” reported that Elina Svitolina had won the tournament in Auckland since the beginning of the year and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open.
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