The leading Ukrainian tennis players are unable to stay at the tournaments of ATP series.
Sergiy Stakhovsky lost in the first round of a clay tournament in Umag – Ukrainian couldn’t cope with the 124-th racket of the world of Slovakia’s Andrei Martin. The match could go according to the script Stakhovsky, but he, leading 4:0, managed to lose the first set. In the second set, Martin made the break and did not let the opponent back in the game.
Andrew Martin (Slovakia) — Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) — 7:6 (6), 6:4
Ekaterina Kozlova, breaking qualification in Bastade in the first round of the Swedish clay tournament did not create any problems sixth seeded Laura Sigemund. Kozlova has lost each of the nine games on her serve.
Kateryna Kozlova (Ukraine) — Laura Siegemund (Germany, 6) — 1:6, 2:6
The best chance for the continuation of the struggle was Catherine Bondarenko, but also the third racket of Ukraine failed to reach the second round of the tournament on hard courts in Stanford. Like Kozlov, Bondarenko experienced huge problems in the game on his serve seven breaks Ukrainka said only five times.
Ursula Radwanska (Poland) – Ekaterina Bondarenko (Ukraine) – 6:4, 7:5
