Dubai Open: Svitolina dismantles Kalinskaya to reach second round
Elina Svitolina beat Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2. She’ll play either Rebecca Sramkova or Clara Tauson in the next round
Elina Svitolina at the 2022 Dubai Open
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Ukrainian Elina Svitolina defeated Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 15 seed, 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.
Svitolina, ranked No 22, will face the winner of the match between Slovak Rebecca Sramkova and Dane Clara Tauson next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Ons Jabeur vs. Peyton Stearns
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- McCartney Kessler vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Clara Tauson
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Eva Lys vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Diana Shnaider vs. Magdalena Frech
- Maria Sakkari vs. Emma Raducanu
- Karolina Muchova (14) beat Suzan Lamens (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Caroline Garcia (WC): 6-2, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-2
- 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
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