Nice Britain’s Sonay Kartal was knocked out within the first spherical of the Abu Dhabi Open after shedding in three units to American Katie Volynets.
Kartal, 23, took the opening set towards world quantity 68 Volynets however fell to a 3-6 6-4 6-4 loss.
The 91st-ranked Englishwoman broke into the world’s high 100 for the primary time on the finish of final season.
She was taking part in for the primary time since making her abroad Grand Slam debut on the Australian Open final month, exiting within the first spherical.
Kartal recovered from shedding serve within the opening recreation to show across the first set, which she clinched by taking a 3rd consecutive recreation.
Volynets, additionally 23, raced right into a 5-0 lead within the second set as she took the match to a decider.
However that was solely after she survived a scare as Kartal threatened an unlikely comeback, the Briton battling again to 5-4 earlier than shedding serve for a 3rd time.
There have been six consecutive breaks of function the gamers scrapped for the decisive breakthrough within the last set, and it was Volynets who struck with a primary match level to arrange a second-round assembly with high seed Elena Rybakina.