Dubai Open: Svitolina makes last 16
Elina Svitolina won against Tatjana Maria 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and American Sloane Stephens in the next round
Elina Svitolina (Virginie Bouyer/Panoramic)
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 15 seed, beat German Tatjana Maria 6-3, 6-3 to move into the last 16 of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday.
Svitolina, ranked No 20, will play the winner of the match between Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, and American Sloane Stephens next.
The Ukrainian won against Anhelina Kalinina (6-3, 7-6 (7)) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round of the Dubai tournament, Maria, ranked No 54, won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-2, 6-1).
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
- Iga Swiatek vs. Sloane Stephens
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Nao Hibino vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Elena Rybakina: tuesday
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Lulu Sun: tuesday
- Anastasia Potapova beat Lucia Bronzetti (LL): 6-0, 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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