Kalinskaya vents: "The match ended late, I had to go to bed at 4 a.m. The match schedule was unfair."
She beat compatriot Alexandrova in the round of 16, on the night between Wednesday and Thursday in the United States, and will take to the court today at 11 a.m. (local time, 5 p.m. in Italy) for the quarterfinal match against Swiatek . Thus Anna Kalinskaya – virtual number 30 in the WTA rankings , ex-girlfriend of Jannik Sinner – vented on Instagram against the organizers of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 .
Kalinskaya's Instagram story"How can the WTA and the tournament expect athletes to perform at their best when the scheduling is so unfair? After my match against Alexandrova," she wrote in a story, "I got home from the court at 2:40 a.m. and didn't go to bed until 4 a.m. I slept a little and came to the court to practice. Then I have my match scheduled for tomorrow at 11 a.m. How do the organizers and the WTA expect me to recover and continually adjust my sleep pattern, which is one of the most important aspects of recovery? It seems a bit one-sided."
In the final part of her message, the Russian tennis player suggests there's unequal treatment between the top-ranked players and the rest. On Wednesday evening, due to rain, her quarterfinal match was postponed and ended late at night. Kalinskaya went to bed at 4:00 a.m., slept a few hours, trained, and is now ready (at 5:00 p.m. Italian time) to open Friday. She's had very little time to recover.
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