Dubai Duty Free Championships: Ostapenko advances to second round
Jelena Ostapenko won against Katarina Zavatska 6-1, 6-4 on Monday evening and will face Czech wildcard Linda Fruhvirtova in the next round
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 13 seed, moved into the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships by beating Ukrainian Katarina Zavatska 6-1, 6-4 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Monday evening.
Ostapenko, ranked No 20, will face Czech wildcard Linda Fruhvirtova next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Elena Rybakina vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Claire Liu vs. Shelby Rogers: monday
- Yulia Putintseva beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 0-6, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (15) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 7-5
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-4
- Lauren Davis (LL) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Karolina Muchova beat Bernarda Pera: 6-1, 6-4
- Ana Bogdan (Q) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-5, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (11): 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Veronika Kudermetova (10): 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
- Marta Kostyuk (WC) beat Ipek Oz (WC): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez beat Julia Grabher (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Danielle Collins: 6-3, 6-4
- Amanda Anisimova beat Vera Zvonareva (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Viktoriya Tomova (Q) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 6-1
- Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Paula Badosa: 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Marie Bouzkova beat Sofia Kenin (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- Qinwen Zheng beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-1
- Petra Kvitova (12) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-1
- Barbora Krejcikova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-4, 6-2
- Madison Keys beat Jasmine Paolini (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Dayana Yastremska (Q) beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 6-3
