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“Yes, we wanted to have the meeting with the board and we didn’t get one. The world No 38 told the press there had been no response from the WTA about a request from Ukrainian players to meet. KalinskayaĪlexandrova will next play defending champion Liudmila Samsonova, while Noskova and Pavlyuchenkova will square off for a quarterfinal place.Kostyuk, who had also previously refused to shake hands with Russia’s Varvara Gracheva and Victoria Azarenka, from Russia’s ally Belarus, said “obviously there is tension – we’re not friends. Pavlyuchenkova, Noskova, Alexandrova advance: Other first-round winners on Day 2 included two-time finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who routed Donna Vekic 6-1, 6-1 in just 74 minutes 19-year-old Linda Noskova, who saved one set point in the second set before coming through 6-2, 7-5 against Japanese lucky loser Himeno Sakatsume and Ekaterina Alexandrova, who edged wild card Anna Kalinskaya 6-7(7), 6-1, 7-5 in 2 hours and 21 minutes. Having survived to fight another day, Doi will extend her career with a second-round tilt against No.4 seed and freshly-crowned Guadalajara champion Maria Sakkari.

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A brilliant passing shot at full stretch had been called out, but turned out to have just grazed the line for a clean winner. Even more meaningfully, it was just Doi's second main-draw win in Tokyo, and first since defeating Varvara Lepchenko in the 2013 first round.Īfter finding her quick 4-1 lead pegged back to 5-5, Doi edged the first set thanks in large part to a successful challenge in the final game. The result was her first tour-level win since July 2022, when she defeated Oksana Selekhmeteva in the first round of Hamburg, and her first Top 50 victory since besting Zheng Saisai in the first round of Doha 2021. Having successfully qualified, an inspired Doi rolled back the years to upset No.49-ranked Petra Martic 7-5, 6-2 in the first round. The 32-year-old announced last month that she would bid farewell to the sport on home soil due to a persistent back injury.

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On her home turf 🇯🇵 battles past Martic 7-5, 6-2 and will face Sakkari in the next round! #TorayPPO /2EcEPqUUX3ĭoi delivers victory in farewell event: This week marks the final tournament of former World No.30 Misaki Doi's professional career. Another overhead error down break point saw Kasatkina level at 3-3, ultimately reeling off the last four games of the match. The 21-year-old led by a break twice, and as in the second set was immediately broken back both times. Kostyuk had her share of hot shots, too, including a finely angled backhand to end a long baseline exchange, but was again unable to maintain her leads.

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In her comfort zone of extended rallies, the 26-year-old came up with a series of brilliant passing shots, with a flick off a sidespun Kostyuk volley in the fourth game drawing gasps from the Tokyo crowd.

Kasatkina did not truly find her groove until the deciding set, but once she did played some of her most spectacular tennis of the day. Down set point, a Kostyuk overhead bounced off the tape and into the tramlines, encapsulating a passage of play in which Kasatkina had refused to buckle. The Ukrainian went up a break three times, but her own mounting error count meant that she was unable to consolidate. Kasatkina was given few chances to find her rhythm, and was repeatedly let down by an errant backhand as she tallied 38 unforced errors to only 11 winners over the first two sets.īut, having played a clean first set in which she had conceded only eight points on serve, Kostyuk's consistency began to slip in a second set which saw nine service breaks in 10 games. How the match was won: Kostyuk raced out of the blocks, smothering Kasatkina with quickfire points and an aggressive strategy that saw her come forwards at every opportunity.