White Sulfur Springs (United States) (AFP)
American Sofia Kenin won 5 games to 3 against Belarusian Olga Govortsova on Monday at World Team Tennis (WTT), a team tournament held in the US hill station of White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.
The winner of the last Australian Open, expeditious last Saturday at the expense of Venus Williams, was this time more laborious with a bad start where she was led 3-0. But she was able to tighten her game to line up five consecutive games.
She thus garners with a fifth success, her only defeat having been conceded against the returning Belgian Kim Clijsters, who did not play this Monday.
The WTT, which features nine teams each representing a city, is the first professional tennis competition organized since the suspension of the WTA women's and ATP men's circuits last March, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this competition, which runs until August 2, each game is played on the best of five games, with a total of five games played between two teams (two singles, male and female, and three doubles, male, female and mixed. ). The team with the most games wins the match.
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