The first racket of Ukraine, 

could not make it to the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami (USA).

In her opening match at these competitions, the 29-year-old native of Odesa (No. 17 WTA) lost to the world's most experienced Japanese player Naomi Osaka (No. 229 WTA).

The match lasted 1 hour 31 minutes and ended with Elina's defeat with a score of

.

It should be noted that this was the seventh personal meeting of tennis players in history.

Svitolina defeated Osaka three times and lost four times.

Overview of the match between Osaka and Svitolina

Another Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska (#33 WTA) also completed her performances at the tournament in Miami.

In the round of 16, the 23-year-old Odesa native lost to Maria Sakkari (No. 9 WTA) from Greece.

The match lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes and ended with the defeat of Yastremska with a score of 5:7, 4:6.

It was the first personal meeting of tennis players.

Thus, only Angelina Kalinin remained to represent Ukraine at the tournament in Miami, who in the third round

 the second-ranked Belarusian Arina Sobolenko.

Kalinin (No. 36 WTA) will compete with Yulia Putintseva (No. 68 WTA), a native of Moscow, who represents Kazakhstan, to advance to the quarterfinals.

Kostyuk lost crushingly to the world's number one racket and could not reach the finals of the tournament in Indian Wells

Russian and Belarusian tennis players were admitted to the Olympics and Paralympics in neutral status

"Glory to Ukraine": Kostyuk broke down in tears at the award ceremony after the finals of the tournament in San Diego (video)