Anastasia Soboleva (267) failed to advance to the semifinals of the ITF W75 tournament held in Trnava, Slovakia. In the quarterfinal match, the Ukrainian lost to the second seed Romanian Elena Gabriela Ruse (101).
The match lasted for 1 hour and 16 minutes and ended with a score of 3:6, 1:6.
The contest remained even only until the score was 3:3 in the first set. Following that, Soboleva managed to win just one of the next ten games.
During the match, Anastasia did not manage to serve an ace, made 5 double faults, and achieved 1 break. Her opponent hit 6 aces, made 2 serving errors, and gained 5 breaks.
The two opponents had not faced each other before.
It is worth noting that in the first round of the tournament in Trnava, Soboleva defeated the fifth-seeded French player Jessica Ponchet (169), and in the second round, she overcame Slovak Radka Zelinkova (486).