Anna Kalinskaya’s feat in Strasbourg

Anna Kalinskaya’s win in the second round of the WTA 500 on the French clay in Strasbourg, the classic women’s prologue to Roland Garros.

The Russian, world No. 30 and now the former girlfriend of Jannik Sinner, beat Jessica Pegula of the United States, No. 3 in the WTA rankings and the tournament’s No. 1 seed, in a comeback with a score of 4-6 6-4 6-2.

Three breaks in the first three games, two are in Pegula’s favor, and she maintains the lead throughout the rest of the set, in which there are no other break points. The U.S. also goes ahead 3-1 in the second set with break in the third game.

Here, however, when it seemed to be over, the match turns comletely: Kalinskaya regains the lead at 3-3, saves a break point in the seventh game, and then at 5-4 makes the break that extends the match.

The third set has no history: two breaks in Anna’s favor in the second and eighth games decide the partial and the entire match, which ends after two hours of play. In the quarterfinals Kalinskaya will face another U.S. player, Danielle Collins.