Tennis round-up

31st May 2009

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Krakow born Agnieszka Radwanska faces Ukraine’s Kateryna Bondarenko tomorrow in the third of the Roland Garros French Open.

Radwanska, seeded twelfth, has so far beaten Rossana De Los Rios 6-3, 6-1, and Mariya Korysttseva 6-1, 6-4. Bondarenko’s younger sister, Alona, lost in last weekend’s final of the Warsaw Open, beaten by world number 201 Alexandra Dulgheru 7-6, 3-6, 6-0.

Bondarenko, beaten in the Warsaw final for the second time on the trot said after, "I hope when I come here next time I’ll finally win. I was a little nervous at the start of the third set. She got an early lead and played too well. I couldn’t do anything, and didn’t know how to beat Alexandra today."

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