Dubai Duty Free Championships: Azarenka advances to second round

Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 15 seed, reached the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships by beating Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 7-5 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Monday.

Azarenka, ranked No 14, will play American Amanda Anisimova 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
• Claire Liu vs. Shelby Rogers
• Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva: monday
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Rebeka Masarova (Q): 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• 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