Kateryna Sinyakova cruised to a convincing victory over compatriot Karolina Pliskova in the opening round of the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide on Tuesday.

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Kateryna Sinyakova beat Karolina Pliskova at the WTA in Adelaide

A multiple Grand Slam doubles champion, Siniakova has never climbed higher than No. 31 in the WTA singles rankings, but she quickly overtook Pliskova (the former world number one in July 2017).

Kateryna (49 WTA) needed an hour and 11 minutes to defeat Karolina 6-2, 6-1.

Know:

• Plishkova won the first three face-to-face meetings with Siniakova.

• Karolina Pliskova has lost 14 of her last 19 matches and is currently ranked 37th in the WTA rankings.

• Kateryna Sinyakova will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (finalist 59 WTA / Roland Garros 2021) in the second round, after the Russian eliminated Brazil’s Beatrice Haddad Maia (11 WTA / favorite 5), score 6-3, 6-4.

Adelaide International (Australia) takes place from January 8 to 13 on hard. He has a total prize money of $922,573 and is a member of the “WTA 500”. The last champions are Esheli Barty (2020, 2022), Iga Sviatek (2021) and Belinda Bencic (2023).

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