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 | Pironkova was launched against the Italian in Barcelona24-04-2011 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will face Italian Alberta Brianti in the first round of tennis tournament on clay courts in the Spanish city of Barcelona with a prize fund 220 000 dollars. Pironkova, 35 in the world, is seeded third and has secured a point for the WTA rankings and 1825 dollars. 31-year-old Brianti is 94 in the WTA ranking at the moment. She is 165 cm is weighs 60 kg. Italians no tournament wins, but earned 727,700 dollars in prize money as a pro. Brianti has two wins in three games against Pironkova. She won the first match between them with 6:2, 6:2 in 2003 in Latin. The Bulgarian beat in the second meeting in 2009 in Stuttgart with 0:6, 6:4, 6:4, and a year later Brianti again defeated with 5:7, 6:1, 6:3 in Madrid.