In Abu Dhabi, the WTA 500 tournament opens the 2021 tennis season.
But Martina Trevisan's adventure in the Open begins badly with a prize pool of $ 565,530 that is being played on the hard courts of the Zayed Sports City International Tennis Center, in the United Arab Emirates: the 27-year-old Florentine, 85 in the ranking, was defeated 6-3 6-3, in an hour and 23 minutes of play, by the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, 28 WTA and 13th seeded.
Debut in the tournament also for Jasmine Paolini who will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez, n.88 in the ranking, never faced before.