Tennis: Zarina Dias wins ITF tournament in China

Zarina Dias. Photo courtesy of blogspot.com

A professional tennis player from Kazakhstan Zarina Dias has won the ITF tournament in China with a prize pool of $50 thousand, Tengrinews reports. The Kazakhstan athlete beat her rival Noppawan Lertcheewakarn from Thailand in the decisive match with the score of 6:1, 6:1. The final game lasted for 52 minutes. Zarina Dias won over Russian Kseniya Pervak in the semi-finals of the tournament. Pervak, who earlier represented Kazakhstan, refused to continue the match against the Kazakh tennis player after the score was 6:1, 3:1 in favor of Dias.Zarina Dias, the tournament’s No.1 tennis professional, holds the 118th place with 530 points in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking.