Champion smile: Ekaterina Makarova and champion Kristina Dmitruk within the ITF girls’s tennis match in Gurugram on Sunday.
| Photograph Credit score: Kamesh Srinivasan
Kristina Dmitruk got here up with a flawless show to outplay second seed Ekaterina Makarova 6-3, 6-2 within the closing of the $30,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Tennis Challenge, Baliyawas, on Sunday.
The 29-year-old Makarova, who was ranked a profession finest 158 final 12 months and had received the doubles title with Ekaterina Reyngold, did struggle laborious, pushing Dmitruk to her wit’s finish in powerful rallies. Nonetheless, the 21-year-old Dmitruk, who was World No.2 on the prime of her junior profession in 2021, served robust and transformed her probabilities higher to race away to victory.
The sleek-stroking Dmitruk transformed 4 of 5 break factors whereas dropping serve as soon as, early within the second set. She raised her stage of play and closed out the match in an hour and 17 minutes for her sixth title within the skilled circuit.
Fairly delighted along with her persistently robust efficiency, Kristina gave credit score to her brother for being available and enjoying the function of a psychological coach.
Dmitruk did drop a set to Priska Nugroho of Indonesia within the first spherical, however thereafter, she misplaced solely 15 video games in all within the subsequent 4 matches.
The outcomes (closing): Kristina Dmitruk bt Ekaterina Makarova 6-3, 6-2.
Printed – March 09, 2025 06:01 pm IST
