Daria Kasatkina and her girlfriend Natalya Zabiyako at the tournament

Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina won the Silicon Valley Classic tennis tournament, under the auspices of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), in San Jose. This is Daria’s first victory since her appearance. His girlfriend Natalya Zabiyako came to support Daria, the girls posed for photographers together.

In the final of the tournament, Kasatkina defeated the American Shelby Rogers and won the fifth championship in her career. The prize fund of the tournament is $758,000.

Sports.ru quotes Kasatkina.

Natalya Zabiyako supported her girlfriend after the tournament.

– Wrote on Instagram *.

After the victory, Kasatkina returned to the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time since 2019, moving up to 9th place: this is the best result in her career. She ranks third in the WTA for the number of wins in a season. Daria Kasatkina is the 12th racket in the world and the first in Russia.

Daria Kasatkina

Earlier, Kasatkina gave a resounding interview to her dating sports blogger Vita Kravchenko. said.

The athlete said that he is dating figure skater Natalya Zabiyako. Kasatkina also stated that she does not exclude the change of sports citizenship.

After her statements, the athlete faced harsh criticism online. Therefore, the State Duma deputy Roman Teryushkov even suggested bringing the girl to criminal responsibility, as he called on young athletes to change citizenship.

*Instagram is owned by Meta, a recognized extremist organization in the Russian Federation.