Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmila Kichenok won a second victory on hard courts tournament in Brazil Florianopolis.
In the final qualification tournament in Brazil Lyudmyla Kichenok lost to his sister – who would have thought that a Ukrainian has to be presented the chance to play in the main draw, Kichenok will win and two victories for the first time in his career, will play in the quarterfinals of the tournament of series WTA.
The match with a 266-th racket of the world Teresa Martincova lasted more than two hours – Kichenok with a lot of unforced errors gave her opponent the first set, but then the Ukrainian gathered and became much more likely to put Martincova to a standstill. In the second set, Kichenok made two break with a missed serve.
During the decisive set Martincova twice served for the match, but Kichenok twice did a back break. In the tiebreak, the Czech Republic made several unforced errors than Kichenok could not use it.
For a semi-final Lyudmyla Kichenok will probably argue with the ex-first racket of the world Jelena Jankovic, who will play with Romanian Ana Bogdan.
Teresa Martincova (Czech Republic) — Lyudmyla Kichenok (Ukraine) — 6:1, 4:6, 6:7
Olga Savchuk failed to create problems for the 37th world number one Monica Puig. Ukrainian four times gave his serve and missed two break points.
Olga Savchuk (Ukraine) – Monica Puig (Puerto Rico, 3) – 0:6, 4:6
