Dubai Open: Swiatek moves into last 16, takes on Svitolina next
Iga Swiatek beat Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday evening. She’ll face Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 15 seed, in the next round
Iga Swiatek in Qatar in 2023 (Imago/Panoramic)
Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, reached the last 16 of the Dubai Open by defeating American Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-4 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday evening.
Swiatek has now won 72 of her first 90 matches in WTA 1000 events.
Swiatek, ranked No 1, will play Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 15 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Dubai tournament, Stephens, ranked No 41, won against French qualifier Clara Burel (6-4, 1-6, 6-2).
Dubai WTA 1000, other second-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Coco Gauff vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Ashlyn Krueger: tuesday
- Qinwen Zheng (6) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Victoria Azarenka: 4-6, 6-2 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Lulu Sun (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova beat Lucia Bronzetti (LL): 6-0, 6-3
- Elina Svitolina beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Veronika Kudermetova (13): 6-1, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Cristina Bucsa (LL): 6-3, 6-4
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Donna Vekic beat Aryna Sabalenka (2): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0
- Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (7) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
- Jasmine Paolini beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-3, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (8) beat Emma Navarro: 6-2, 6-4
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