The ninth racket of the world, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, lost in three sets to Swiss Belinda Bencic, who is in the 45th position in the WTA ranking, with a score of 4/6, 6/2, 6/7 (7) in the third round of the tournament in Dubai.
Tennis players spent on the court 2 hours 26 minutes. During this time, the 20-year-old Sabalenka completed eight aces, made a mistake eight times in filing and sold five break points, and the 21-year-old Bencic never gave a proper match, made 13 double mistakes and made four breaks.
Now the score in personal meetings was 1: 1. In the quarter finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Bencic will cross the rackets with Romanian Simona Halep.