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Elitsa Kostova wins Budapest tennis tournament

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Bulgarian tennis player Elitsa Kostova has achieved one of the greatest successes in her career so far after winning the title of the tennis tournament on clay courts in Budapest with prize fund of 100 000 U.S. dollars. In the final Kostova won 6: 0, 7: 6 for an hour and 17 minutes against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova, who is Kostova’s teammate in Fed Cup. The victory brought Kostova 140 points for the world rank list. This is the first title of the season for Kostova and her fifth of tournaments of the International Tennis Federation.



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