Georgian top seed Anna Tatishvili won very important match in her career and guaranteed solid advance in WTA rating. As a result he pleased Georgian fans. In spite of late night a lot of fans responded her victory on our web-site and its number exaggerated 60.
21-year-old Tatishvili started this very prestige international tournament which is underway in the city of Florida, Miami (4 500 000 $) from qualification. She beat two rivals and few minutes later won the first match in the main wrap.
The match between Tatishvili- Govortsova lasted fro two hours and 13 minutes and finally Georgian top seed managed to win 6:3, 5:7, 6:3.
Tatishvili who is No.125 seed with 540 points gained 50 points and 11 500 $ with going through the second round at Sony Ericsson Open and guaranteed advance in rating with 8 places. It is already known that her next rival is Spanish María José Martínez Sánchez who is in the 33rd place at ranking and is No.27 seed.
In a word, very difficult match is ahead Georgian tennis player. Tatishvili has played against Spanish María José Martínez Sánchez once. Spanish player beat Georgian one in the second round of qualification of international tournament (185 000 $) in 2008 in the capital of Columbia Bogota (6:4, 6:4).
Tomorrow at night is planned the match between Georgian and Spanish player. In case of winning Tatishvili will win 80 points. In case of making one more sensation and Tatishvili will manage to go through the second round her next rival will be winner among Belgian Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters and Belarusian Anastasia Iakimova.
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