Dubai Open: Qualifier Hibino upsets Linette to reach second round
Nao Hibino edged out Magda Linette 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 on Sunday night. She’ll face No 6 seed Qinwen Zheng in the next round
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Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino edged out Pole Magda Linette 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.
Hibino, ranked No 93, will face No 6 seed Qinwen Zheng next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Arantxa Rus vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Petra Martic vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Bernarda Pera
- Paula Badosa vs. Lulu Sun
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Xiyu Wang
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
- Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Svitolina
- Sofia Kenin vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Caroline Garcia
- Elise Mertens vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Sloane Stephens vs. Clara Burel
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Storm Hunter: sunday
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Emma Navarro: sunday
- Donna Vekic beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
- Peyton Stearns beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
- Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Tatjana Maria beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-1
