Polina Iatcenko beat Dalma Galfi 6-4, 7-6(6) in the round of 16 at the WTA 125 tournament in Samsun. The victory sent the Russian into the next round of the competition, which has a prize fund of $115 thousand and is being played on hard courts. This was reported by api.tennis.
How the match unfolded
Iatcenko took the first set 6-4. The second set went down to the wire, with her opponent unable either to move ahead by two games or lose by a wide margin. The set ended 7-6(6), and Galfi won six points in the tie-break. The final score in sets was 2:0 in favor of the Russian.
Iatcenko is making her way through the tournament without dropping a set. In the first round, she beat Suzan Lamens 6-3, 6-1, and now she has defeated Galfi as well. The Hungarian’s run in Samsun was shorter: in her opening match, she beat Julia Grabher 6-3, 6-4, before falling to Iatcenko.
According to api.tennis, this was the only recorded meeting between the players, with the head-to-head now 1-0 in Iatcenko’s favor. According to rank.tennis, before the match the Russian was 141st with 504 points, while Galfi was 151st with 489 points. The gap between them was 10 places and 15 points. Ahead of Samsun, neither player managed to make their mark in Adana: Iatcenko lost there to Erika Andreeva 3-6, 2-6, while Galfi went down to Teodora Kostovic 6-4, 6-7(1), 4-6.