Kazakh tennis player Yulia Putintseva lost to former world number one Victoria Azarenka from Belarus at the WTA 1000 tournament in Doha (Qatar), bbabo.net correspondent reports.

The match of the first round ended with the victory of the Belarusian tennis player with a score of 5:7, 6:2, 7:5. Moreover, in the third set, Putintseva led 4-0, but allowed Azarenka to level the score. The meeting lasted almost three hours (2 hours 49 minutes).

Putintseva currently occupies 42nd place in the WTA ranking, and Azarenka is the 17th racket of the world. After this match, the score of personal meetings became 2-0 in favor of Azarenka. It is worth noting that the Belarusian tennis player in her career was the first racket of the world, where she rose on January 30, 2012.

Azarenka's next opponent will be American tennis player Madison Brengle, ranked 60th in the WTA rankings.

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