Mira Andreeva defeated the Ukrainian in the first match of the WTA tennis tournament.
The competition takes place at American Indian Wells.
The match with Alina Svitolina lasted one hour and 8 minutes and ended in two sets with the result 6:4, 6:0 in favor of the Russian.
In the next match of the group stage, Mira Andreeva (the third player in the world) will meet the second player in the world - the Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sablanka.