Currently taking place in Madrid is the WTA-1000 tournament on clay courts. Kazakhstan's second seed, Yulia Putintseva, played her second round match.
Yulia Putintseva (ranked No. 50 in the WTA) advanced to the third round following the retirement of the world's eighth seed, Zheng Saisai from China.
The first set went in favor of the Kazakhstani player with a score of 7:5, and in the second set, with the score at 0:2, Zheng Saisai withdrew from the match due to injury.
The match between the two athletes lasted for 1 hour and 25 minutes. During this time, Yulia Putintseva served one ace and converted five out of seven break points. On the other hand, Zheng Saisai had two aces, converted three out of five break points, and made one double fault.
Yulia Putintseva's next opponent will be the American player Caroline Dolehide (ranked No. 56 in the WTA), who secured a victory over Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina (ranked No. 32 in the WTA) with a score of 6:7 (6:8), 6:2, 6:3.
Earlier in the first round of the Madrid "thousand" tournament, Yulia Putintseva defeated another Chinese tennis player, Yuan Yue (ranked No. 37 in the WTA).
