Madrid Open: Kasatkina into round of 16 after straight-sets win over Tsurenko, no handshake at the end

Daria Kasatkina defeated Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday. She’ll face the winner of the match between No 12 seed Veronika Kudermetova and No 21 seed Anastasia Potapova in the next round

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Tennis Majors

April 30, 2023

Mutua Madrid Open •Third round • completed

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L. TsurenkovsD. Kasatkina

Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, defeated Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the round of 16 at the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica on Sunday.

There was no handshake between the two players at the end of the match. “What’s more sad it that we are still in war and the Ukranians have reasons not to shake hands with us”, Kasatkina stated after the match. “We waved at each other and I was happy about that…”

No handshake between Ukrainian Tsurenko and Russian Kasatkina, but there was a little wave from Lesia to Dasha, who spoke repeatedly against the war and considered to play for a different country.., pic.twitter.com/Bsk6gPwWQ6
— José Morgado (@josemorgado) April 30, 2023

Kasatkina, ranked No 8, will play the winner of the match between No 12 seed Veronika Kudermetova and No 21 seed Anastasia Potapova next.

The Russian won against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Madrid tournament.

Earlier in the tournament, Tsurenko, ranked No 77, beat Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-1, 6-3) and edged out Swiss Jil Teichmann, the No 25 seed (3-6, 6-2, 6-4).

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