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yDubai Duty Free Championships: Tomova reaches second round, Pegula next
Viktoriya Tomova beat Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-1 on Sunday afternoon
Viktoriya Tomova, 2022 | © Zuma / Panoramic
Bulgarian qualifier Viktoriya Tomova moved into the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships by winning against Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-1 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Sunday.
Tomova, ranked No 100, will face No 3 seed Jessica Pegula 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
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Rebeka Masarova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Jil Teichmann vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Bernarda Pera
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Ana Bogdan
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Ipek Oz vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Julia Grabher vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Danielle Collins
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Vera Zvonareva: sunday
- Paula Badosa vs. Liudmila Samsonova: sunday
- 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
