Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina became the winner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in San Jose (California). On Sunday, August 7, she defeated American Shelby Rogers in the finals with a score of 6:7, 6:1, 6:2. The tournament prize pool was US$758,000.
The victory in the final was the 200th in Kasatkina’s career. This result will allow her to return to the top ten tennis players in the world in the WTA ranking. For the first time, she will rank ninth on this list.
Daria Kasatkina left
Daria Kasatkina is Russia’s first racket. In July, she openly declared her homosexuality. “It’s hard to live in a closet for a long time and it doesn’t make sense. It will constantly go around in your head until you say so,” she said in an interview with sports blogger Vita Kravchenko. When asked if she had a girlfriend, the tennis player replied, “Yes.”
Kasatkina’s confession came on the same day that a bill was presented to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to ban “propaganda of non-traditional relationships” in film, social media and the media.
Source: DW
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