Anisimova sees off veteran Zvonareva to reach second round in Dubai
Amanda Anisimova defeated Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday afternoon and will play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 15 seed, in the next round
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American Amanda Anisimova reached the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships by defeating Russian wildcard and former world No 2 Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Sunday.
Anisimova, ranked No 35, will play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 15 seed, 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
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Katarina Zavatska
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Jil Teichmann vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Bernarda Pera
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Ana Bogdan
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Ipek Oz vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Julia Grabher vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Danielle Collins
- Viktoriya Tomova (Q) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 6-1
- Paula Badosa vs. Liudmila Samsonova: sunday
- 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
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