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Ostapenko retires from first-round match at Italian Open due to health problems
BC, Riga, 15.05.2019.Print version
Latvia's Alona Ostapenko on Tuesday retired from her first-round match at the Italian Open due to health problems, informed LETA.
Ostapenko, ranked 27th in the WTA rankings, was losing 2-6, 4-5 to Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu when she decided to withdraw from the match. Ostapenko has earned one WTA ranking point in Rome.
As reported, earlier today Latvia's No 1 tennis player Anastasija Sevastova was defeated by Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 6-2, 3-6, 2-6 in the first round of the tournament.