Dubai Open: Vekic defeats Wang to make second round
Donna Vekic defeated Xinyu Wang 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday. She’ll face second seed Aryna Sabalenka in the next round
DONNA VEKIC CRO during the UPPER AUSTRIA LADIES LINZ – WTA, Tennis Damen 250 – Womens Tennis, 7.2.2023 in Linz Design Center, Austria – Photo: Mathias Schulz *** DONNA VEKIC CRO during the UPPER AUSTRIA LADIES LINZ WTA 250 Womens Tennis, 7 2 2023 in Linz Design Center (Imago/Panoramic)
Croat Donna Vekic moved into the second round of the Dubai Open by winning against Chinese Xinyu Wang 6-2, 6-4 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.
Vekic, ranked No 27, will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Arantxa Rus vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Petra Martic vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Bernarda Pera
- Paula Badosa vs. Lulu Sun
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Xiyu Wang
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
- Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Svitolina
- Sofia Kenin vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Caroline Garcia
- Elise Mertens vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Sloane Stephens vs. Clara Burel
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Storm Hunter
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Emma Navarro: sunday
- Nao Hibino vs. Magda Linette: sunday
- Peyton Stearns beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
- Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Tatjana Maria beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-1
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