Strasbourg. Svitolina won her second WTA title of the season

Elina Svitolina became a WTA International Series Champion for the second time this year.

Strasbourg Internationals – International
Strasbourg, France • September 20-26 • land • $ 225,000
Tournament table: ranking • singles

Final
Elina Svitolina (Ukraine, 2) – Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan, 5) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2

The rivals spent almost 2 hours on the court. At the start of the deciding set, Svitolina played 4 break points and won 4 games in a row with a score of 2-2. The Ukrainian has 2 aces, 2 double faults, 16 winners and 23 unforced errors. Rybakina scored an ace with 6 doubles, 24 winners, and 34 unforced errors.

This was the first head-to-head match for tennis players.

Elina Svitolina expanded her collection with 15 WTA titles in her career and 8 in the International category. Earlier this year, the 26-year-old Ukrainian won the competition in Monterrey, where she beat Marie Bouzkova in the final. Svitolina defeated an opponent in the top 20 for the second time this season (she beat Arina Sobolenko in the semi-finals yesterday). On the way to the final, the Ukrainian also left the competition behind Magda Lynette and Gilles Teichmann.

Elena Rybakina fought for her second WTA International title this year: At the beginning of the season, a tennis player from Kazakhstan became champion in Hobart. This season, Rybakina, 21, also lost in the finals in Shenzhen, St. Petersburg and Dubai. The eighteenth racket in the world today suffered its fifth loss in 9 games against opponents in the top 10.

In the first round of the French Open, Elina Svitolina starts with a match against the Russian Varvara Gracheva (WTA 94), the Romanian Sorana Kyrstea (WTA 82) became the rival of Elena Rybakina at the start of the tournament.

2️th title of the season! 🏆

Seed number 2 @ElinaSvitolina defeats Rybakina, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.# IS20 pic.twitter.com/GWGM4h1zM1

– wta (@WTA) September 26, 2020

Panoramic photo.