Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) eliminated the top-seeded Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) in the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 Adelaide International. The Russian tennis player was betted in the whole match and won it by 2-0 (6:3, 6:3) in an hour and a half.
Ekaterina Alexandrova made 3 breaks in the first set and 2 breaks in the second set, to reach the convincing victory and qualify for the semi-finals of the tennis tournament, where will face Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia), who eliminated Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) by 2-0 (7:5, 6:3).
Meanwhile, the second-seeded Jessica Pegula (USA) overturned Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) after lost the first set. At the end the American tennis player won the match by 2-1 (6:7, 7:5, 6:4) in 2:25 hours. In the semi=finals, she will face Daria Kasatkina (Russia), who qualified after walkover of her opponent Laura Siegemund (Germany).
The tennis tournament WTA 500 Adelaide International, which is the last warming tournament before Australian Open, has a price money of 922,573 USD.