Daria Kasatkina is the winner of the 2022 Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, California. The seventh seed beat American Shelby Rogers 6-7(2) 6-1 6-2 in a battle that took over two and a half hours.
Kasatkina moved well, and perhaps more importantly, did well to move Rogers around the court in the hot afternoon sun. Kasatkina’s constant changes of speed and direction got the better of the American, who could not match the Russian’s locked-in focus in the second and third sets.
After the match, Kasatkina dropped to the court, and then ran over to her player box, where she embraced her coach, brother, and girlfriend, figure skater Natalia Zabiiako, whom she just publicly announced last month she was in a relationship with.