Dubai Duty Free Championships: Krejcikova advances to second round

Czech Barbora Krejcikova defeated Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 6-4, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Sunday.

Krejcikova, ranked No 29, will play No 7 seed Daria Kasatkina next.

Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Jil Teichmann vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Katarina Zavatska
• Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Laura Siegemund vs. Ana Bogdan
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Shelby Rogers
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Karolina Muchova vs. Bernarda Pera
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Elena Rybakina vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Ipek Oz vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Julia Grabher vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Danielle Collins
• Kaia Kanepi vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Paula Badosa vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Sofia Kenin vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Shuai Zhang: sunday
• Martina Trevisan vs. Petra Kvitova: sunday
• Madison Keys beat Jasmine Paolini (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Dayana Yastremska (Q) beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 6-3