Elina Svitolina had a decisive match at a major tournament WTA Premier with a prize Fund of $1,000,000.
Before Svitolina in three sets against top seed to “Toray Pan Pacific Open” Harbinge the Wind, and today I met with a prospective Japanese Naomi Osaka. The Ukrainian had a chance to take revenge from rivals for their defeat at the Australian Open, Svitolina was close to revenge, but
missed my advantage.
As in the match with Muguruza, Ukrainian very convincingly held its first set. Svitolina played in the opening game two break points, and soon organized two breaks and without any problems won the first game.
At the start of the second set Elina missed three break-point – Osaka feel confident in their abilities, and the home crowd helped the 66-th racket of the world. The Japanese made a break, then pulled a heavy game on his serve and evened the score.
In the deciding set, Svitolina did not last long when the score was 2:2 Ukrainian has lost four consecutive games and failed for the third time in the season to reach the final of the tournament of series WTA.
Getting into the semi-finals in Tokyo brought Elina Svitolina 185 rating points and more than 55 thousand dollars in prize money.
Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) – Naomi Osaka (Japan) – 6:1, 3:6, 2:6
