Marketa Vondrousova left the “WTA 1000” tournament in Doha, the reigning Wimbledon champion lost in the 1/8 finals to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (32nd in the world).

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Marketa Vondrousova lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the WTA in Doha

The finalist of “Roland Garros-2021”, the 32-year-old Russian won the mountain in one hour and 50 minutes of play over the athlete from the Czech Republic (8th WTA rating) with a score of 7-5, 6-3.

This is Anastasia’s first victory over Marketa. The previous meetings took place in 2021, and the Czech won in Chicago and Moscow.

In the quarters, Pavlyuchenkova will meet the winner of the match between Danielle Collins (63 WTA) and Kateryna Sinyakova (42 WTA).

Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2024 will be held from February 11 to 17. The tournament is held in Doha on hard, is part of the “WTA 1000” category and offers a total prize pool of $3,211,715. The champion of the title is Iga Sviatek (2022, 2023), and Simona Halep won in 2014.

The main favorites of WTA Doha: Iga Sviatek (1), Coco Gauff (2/eliminated), Olena Rybakina (3), Ons Jabert (4/eliminated), Qinwen Zheng (5), Marketa Vondrousova (6/eliminated), Maria Sakkari ( 7/eliminated), Yelena Ostapenko (8).

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