the russian player Anna Kalinskaya, number 103 in the WTA, met the predictions by winning in the qualifying round of the WTA 500 tournament in St. Petersburg in one hour and eight minutes 7-5 and 6-2 to the Uzbek tennis player Nigina Abduraimova, WTA number 318. With this victory, the tennis player manages to add new points to her ranking to get to participate in the WTA 500 tournament in St. Petersburg.
the tournament of St. Petersburg (WTA Saint Petersburg) includes a qualification phase in which the tennis players with the lowest ranking face each other to obtain the highest possible points to enter the official tournament with the rest of the applicants. Specifically, at this stage of the competition a total of 32 players face each other. Its last phase is made up of 24 finalists among those who qualify directly, the winners of the rounds prior to the final of the tournament and the invited players. Likewise, it is held between February 5 and 13 on an outdoor hard court.