Dubai Duty Free Championships: In-form Sabalenka races into last 16

Aryna Sabalenka defeated Lauren Davis 6-0, 6-1 on Tuesday. She’ll face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 13 seed, in the next round

Aryna Sabalenka backhand AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships •Third round • completed
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Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, won against American lucky loser Lauren Davis 6-0, 6-1 to advance to the last 16 of the Dubai Duty Free Championships at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday afternoon.

Sabalenka, ranked No 2, will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 13 seed, next.

In the previous round, Davis, ranked No 49, defeated Swiss Jil Teichmann (6-4, 4-6, 6-3).

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

  • Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Coco Gauff
  • Iga Swiatek vs. Leylah Fernandez
  • Elena Rybakina vs. Marie Bouzkova
  • Jelena Ostapenko beat Linda Fruhvirtova (WC): 6-2, 6-0
  • Belinda Bencic vs. Marta Kostyuk: tuesday
  • Shelby Rogers vs. Ana Bogdan: tuesday
  • Petra Kvitova (12) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 6-4
  • Jessica Pegula (3) beat Viktoriya Tomova (Q): 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
  • Qinwen Zheng vs. Liudmila Samsonova
  • Karolina Muchova beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
  • Victoria Azarenka (15) beat Amanda Anisimova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
  • Madison Keys beat Caroline Garcia (4): 7-5, 6-4
  • Karolina Pliskova beat Maria Sakkari (6): 6-1, 6-2
  • Barbora Krejcikova beat Daria Kasatkina (7): 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
  • Anhelina Kalinina beat Dayana Yastremska (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-3

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