Sopo Shapatava, Georgian tennis player, after winning 4 games lost the final match in the international tournament, which was held in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia.
#4 seed Shapatava won over the rivals without losing a set in the 3 starting rounds: she beat Russian Aleksandra Artamonova 6:4, 6:1, Ulrike Eiker of Norway 7:6 (7:4), 7:5 and Russian Marina Melnikova (#8seed) 6:4, 7:5.
The more difficult match Shapatava had in the final, where she won over Ukrainian Sofia Kovalets – 6:7, (2:7), 6:2, 6:2, and in the decisive match she lost to Polina Vinogradova 4:6, 6:7 (2:7).
Shapatava has 179 points and is in the 278th place in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking.
