Dubai Open: Yastremska too good for Linette, moves into second round

Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska reached the second round of the Dubai Open by winning against Pole Magda Linette 6-3, 7-5 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Yastremska, ranked No 49, will play the winner of the match between Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 13 seed, and Russian Anastasia Potapova 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
• Belinda Bencic vs. Aoi Ito
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Linda Noskova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Donna Vekic (16): 7-5, 6-3
• 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