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Kostova lost finals 5.12.2010

From Plovdiv Elitsa Kostova missed their first championship tournaments with prize money 25,000 dollars. Haskovo-born player of TC Lokomotiv (Plovdiv) was just a game of triumph, but failed to cope with stress in the final minutes of the final match of the competition in Bendigo (Australia) v Timea Hungarian Grandma. Our girl slid 6:3, 3:6, 5:7, 17-year-old opponent.

Eli served for victory at 5:4 in the third set lead with 30:15, but then conceded a series of unforced errors. Grandma broke back at the last possible moment and by the end of the game 20-year-old Bulgarian failed to win a new game.

This was the fourth final of the lost Kostova tournament with a prize fund 25 000 dollars, and last game for 2010

Thanks to the excellent performance of the competition in Bendigo, Elitsa won 34 WTA ranking points and will climb by nearly 18 places forward in the rankings to around â„– 220 in the world.

Elitsa Kostova will finish the year like a rocket â„– 2 of Bulgaria after 2010 played the strongest season of his career. She did not win the title, but playing a total of 5 final - a tournament with a prize fund 10 000 dollars and four of those with 25,000 dollars, allowing it to make a jump of nearly 140 seats.