Dubai Open: Bencic thrashes qualifier Ito to make second round
Belinda Bencic won against Aoi Ito 6-0, 6-2 on Sunday and will face No 8 seed Emma Navarro in the next round
Belinda Bencic, Australian Open 2025
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Swiss Belinda Bencic defeated Japanese qualifier Aoi Ito 6-0, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.
Bencic, ranked No 65, will face No 8 seed Emma Navarro next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Ons Jabeur vs. Peyton Stearns
- Eva Lys vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
- McCartney Kessler vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Magdalena Frech
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Clara Tauson
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Emma Raducanu
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Suzan Lamens vs. Karolina Muchova
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Caroline Garcia
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: sunday
- Linda Noskova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Donna Vekic (16): 7-5, 6-3
- Dayana Yastremska beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 7-5
- Elise Mertens beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (9) beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-4
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
