Andrei Olkhovsky, who won the Grand Slam tournament twice in mixed doubles, talked about the progress of Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya, who beat the world’s first racket, Polish representative Iga Swiatek, in the WTA-1000 semi-final. tournament in Dubai (UAE). His words guide the way vprognoze.ru.
“Kalinskaya’s progress is connected with inner peace. He found a suitable coach and a nice atmosphere was created around him. I think Anna gained psychological confidence. Victories were added to this. All this created the preconditions for such good results. And of course the preparations for the season were of high quality,” said Olkhovsky.
The meeting lasted 1 hour and 42 minutes and ended with a confident victory of the 25-year-old Muscovite with scores of 6:4 and 6:4. During the game, the Russian had a direct serve, did not make a single double fault and won 68% of the balls on the first serve. His opponent completed six aces, committed two service errors and won 66% of his first serve balls.
In the final match, Kalinskaya will face Italian Yasin Paolini. The game will be played on February 24 and will start at 18.00 Moscow time.
In the updated Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, the tennis player ranked 40th with 1,323 points. 25-year-old Kalinskaya had 13 wins and 4 losses in singles this season.
Swiatek continues to lead (10,300 points). In second place is Belarusian representative Arina Sabalenko (8905 points), who is the champion at the Australian Open. Cori Gauff from the USA (7100 points) completed the top three. The best of the Russians is Daria Kasatkina, in 13th place (3063 points).
Previously at FTR explainedThanks to this, the Russian woman managed to sensationally defeat the world’s first racket.