Kyrgyzstani Kseniya Palkina took second place at the tennis tournament, which ended on March 18 in Antalya (Turkey). Official website of the International Tennis Federation reported.
In the singles, our tennis player dropped out of the fight in the first round, and in the doubles, performing in a duet with Amina Anshba (Russia), reached the final.
In the first round, Palkina and Anshba defeated Alexandra Bučinska (Poland) and Irina Lapustina (Latvia) — 7: 5, 6: 1, then defeated Nadezhda Gorbachkova (Russia) and Julia Helbet (Moldova) — 6: 1, 6: 0. In the semifinals, Sophie and Victoria Munton from France were defeated — 6: 3, 6: 3. In a decisive fight, the Kyrgyz-Russian duet did not cope with Kseniya Noll (Switzerland) and Cornelia Lister (Sweden) — 0: 6, 7: 5 (8:10).
