MINSK, 21 July (BelTA) – Belarus' world number 126 Olga Govortsova lost to world number 162 Tamara Korpatsch of Germany, 6-1, 5-7, 5-7, in the Gdynia Open round of Last 32, BelTA has learned.
The match lasted for three hours. The German player will next play Poland's world number 487 Weronika Falkowska.
Earlier, Belarus' world number 87 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus went off to a good start at the Gdynia Open seeing off Poland's world number 1199 Weronika Baszak 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 in an hour and 45 minutes. The Belarusian will take on Ukraine's world number 141 Kateryna Kozlova for a spot in the quarterfinal.
In the women's doubles opener the Belarus-Kazakhstan duo Lidziya Marozava and Anna Danilina solved the Polish-Russian tandem Weronika Baszak and Varvara Flink 6-1, 2-6, 10-7.
On 21 July Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Olga Govortsova will take on the German-Slovakian duo Tamara Korpatsch and Tereza Mihalikova.
The tournament in Gdynia will be over on 25 July.
