And Elena Dementieva beat another Russian tennis player Ekaterina Makarova in the first round of the WTA tournament in Los Angeles with a prize fund of $600 thousand with a score of 6:3, 6:1.

On Tuesday, at a tournament in Montreal, one match took place with the participation of a Russian tennis player. Marat Safin met with Robin Soderling from Sweden. The history of meetings between athletes who are separated by six lines in the ATP rankings includes one fight. In 2006, at the Masters series tournament in Paris, in the 1/32 finals, Marat managed to beat the Swede in three sets with a score of 3:6, 6:3, 6:4. Safin certainly counted on victory in Canada.

However, in the first set, with the score 2:1 in his favor, Soderling abandoned the fight due to injury.

Thus, Marat entered the second round, where he will play with the second racket of the world, Rafael Nadal.

In the meantime, several Russian tennis players and tennis players began fighting at tournaments in North America on Monday. All life has moved there, since the US Open will start very soon in New York. In the meantime, athletes will have to acclimatize at the tournaments leading up to the US Open, which they are doing with varying degrees of success.

Men compete in Montreal.

The prize fund for this tournament amounted to a seven-figure sum - $2.2 million. For women, everything is much more modest. They play on the Pacific coast for a much more modest prize - $600 thousand.

In Canada, everything could not have worked out more successfully for Mikhail Youzhny, who closed the program on the first day of the tournament. His opponent was Sebastien Grosjean from France. Previously, these tennis players met each other four times in ATP tour tournaments, and all four times the Frenchman was stronger.

The first set was almost one-sided: the Russian prevailed - 6:2. The second game turned out to be more interesting - with long ball plays and sometimes the domestic tennis player losing the necessary concentration. 6:2, 6:4, and in the next round of the competition Youzhny meets Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland.

Nikolai Davydenko will also begin his performance at this tournament immediately from the second round on Wednesday.

The ATP stated that it does not intend to suspend the Russian from the competition due to the fact that bets on one of his matches last week were canceled, and therefore the ATP itself initiated a corresponding investigation.

Nikolai also received support from the tennis establishment.

“It seems to me that Davydenko is not one of those guys who could be involved in something dishonest. And I hope that he will have the opportunity to prove his innocence. It’s depressing that we have to talk about such incidents in tennis, but I sincerely believe that this is a mistake,” Roger Federer expressed his view on the current situation. There have been no comments from Davydenko himself yet.

Four Russian tennis players played in the first round of the WTA tournament in Los Angeles that day.

Moreover, Maria Kirilenko and Elena Bovina played among themselves. Kirilenko turned out to be stronger in this confrontation - 7:6 (8), 6:3. Now Maria will have a meeting with Marion Bartoli from France.

Alla Kudryavtseva lost to the host of the tournament, Jill Craybas. The American only needed two games to defeat the Russian and advance to the next stage of the competition - 7:5, 6:3.

In another meeting with the participation of domestic tennis player Lucie Safarova, she defeated Olga Puchkova .

And here, too, the Russian was able to provide decent resistance only in the first game. The Czech athlete advanced to the second round of the tournament, beating Puchkova - 7:5, 6:2.

Victory “a la Davydenko” - Gazeta.Ru