Sasnovich advanced to 2nd round of Charleston tennis tournament
Aliaksandra Sasnovich (WTA: 97) successfully started the 2024 Fifth Third Charleston 125 tournament with a prise pool of $115,000 in Charleston, USA, beating Kayla Day from the USA (WTA: 88) – 5:7, 7:5, 6:4 – in the 1/16 finals match which lasted 2 hours 46 minutes
Before that, this season, the third racket of Belarus lost six out of nine matches, including the last three. Aliaksandra Sasnovich was also close to a fourth defeat in a row. However, she still showed character and tipped the scales in her favour.
After the exchange of the won sets, with the score of 7:5 in each, the tennis players transferred the showdown to the decisive third game. In the course of the game, the American was in the lead with a break of 2:1. However, the Belarusian found the strength to hold the decisive segment of the match more carefully and brought the match to victory.
Aliaksandra Sasnovich will face Greet Minnen from Belgium (WTA: 81) to reach the quarter-finals.
In 2021, the winner of this competition was the representative of the USA, Varvara Lepchenko. The Charleston tournament was not held in 2022 and 2023.
