Belarusian Victoria Azarenka will not play the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto, where she was to face Belinda Bencic in the 1st round. The former world No. 1 announced that the Canadian authorities had refused him a visa.
Beaten at the start by the Frenchwoman Harmony Tan on June 28 on the London lawn, the ex-world No. 1 suffered once morest the Spaniard, but found the resources to win in a complicated match, in 1h57.
She thus won her first victory since June 4, 2021 and her third victorious round at Roland-Garros 2021, signing her first success in 2022, she who, before Wimbledon, had not appeared on the circuit for a year.
In the next round, the 23-time Grand Slam champion will face the winner of the match between Belinda Bencic and Tereza Matincova.
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