Latvian tennis player Alona Ostapenko advanced past the first round of the Doha WTA 1000 tournament after a challenging match against Russia's Anastasia Zakharova.
Latvian tennis player Alona Ostapenko faced a tough challenge in the first round of the Doha "WTA 1000" tournament but emerged victorious after a grueling two hours and forty minutes on the court. She won the match with a score of 6-7 (6:8), 6-3, 6-4 against Russian player Anastasia Zakharova, who is ranked 105th in the WTA. This victory earns Ostapenko 65 points; however, she needs to defend a significant amount of points in this tournament to maintain her current ranking position of 24th in the WTA.
