Karatancheva eliminated in the first round in Mexico

The national player for the “Billie Jean King Cup“ Lia Karatancheva was eliminated in the first round of the singles of the WTA 125 tennis tournament on hard courts in Tampico, Mexico, BNR reported.

The Bulgarian lost to Petra Marcinko from Croatia 2:6, 2:6. The match lasted only 59 minutes.

Karatancheva fell behind 0:5 in the first set, and in the second - 0:4 and naturally lost to the 125th in the world ranking Marcinko. In the same ranking, the Sofia resident is number 308.

Lia will also play in doubles. She and Ukrainian Valeria Strakhova are seeded second and start straight from the round of 16.