Erika Andreeva has reached the round of 16 at the WTA 125 tournament in Adana. In the second round she beat fellow Russian Polina Iatcenko 6-3, 6-2. The tournament is played on hard courts with a prize fund of 115 thousand dollars. Both players were unseeded. According to api.tennis, the match was completed in two sets.
Andreeva won the first set 6-3. In the second, she conceded one fewer game to her opponent, closing out the set 6-2. Over the course of the match, Iatcenko won a total of five games.
Ranking and head-to-head
By ranking, Iatcenko was considered the favorite. According to rank.tennis, she sits at No. 150 with 478 points, while Andreeva is ranked No. 194 with 386 points. The head-to-head record now stands 1-0 in Andreeva's favor.
Andreeva arrived in Adana after two first-round losses. In Porto she fell to Reese Brantmeier 3-6, 6-7(5), and in Caldas da Rainha she lost to Viktoria Hrunčáková 7-6(4), 4-6, 4-6. Iatcenko had reached the semifinals at the tournament in Ankara. In the quarterfinals she beat Kseniya Zaytseva 6-3, 6-2, before losing in the semifinal to Teodora Kostović 5-7, 5-7. In Adana, Iatcenko was also eliminated from the doubles draw: in the first round she and her partner lost to the pairing of Elena Pridankina and Anastasia Tikhonova 4-6, 3-6.