Dubai Duty Free Championships: Sasnovich makes second round
Aliaksandra Sasnovich edged out Rebeka Masarova 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Monday. She’ll play No 5 seed Coco Gauff in the next round
Belarus’ Aliaksandra Sasnovich celebrates after winning her third round match against Germany’s Angelique Kerber (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich moved into the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships by edging out Spanish qualifier Rebeka Masarova 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Monday.
Sasnovich, ranked No 43, will face No 5 seed Coco Gauff 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
- Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva: monday
- Claire Liu vs. Shelby Rogers
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Victoria Azarenka: monday
- 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 (WC) 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
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