Dubai Open: Kalinskaya through to quarter-finals
Anna Kalinskaya defeated Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 7-5 on Wednesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, and Karolina Pliskova in the next round
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Russian qualifier Anna Kalinskaya won against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 9 seed, 6-4, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Wednesday.
Kalinskaya, ranked No 40, will face the winner of the match between American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, and Karolina Pliskova next.
Earlier in the tournament, the Russian defeated Australian qualifier Storm Hunter (6-1, 6-2) and Spanish lucky loser Cristina Bucsa (6-3, 6-4).
Ostapenko, ranked No 9, won against Chinese qualifier Xiyu Wang (5-7, 6-2, 6-3) and Swiss wildcard Lulu Sun (6-4, 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Dubai tournament.
Dubai WTA 1000, other last 16 results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Iga Swiatek vs. Elina Svitolina
- Coco Gauff vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Donna Vekic
- Magdalena Frech vs. Elena Rybakina: wednesday
- Marketa Vondrousova (7) beat Liudmila Samsonova (12): 6-2, 6-2
- Jasmine Paolini beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-2
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