Petra Kvitováshe lost four of her six games this year, but she came to life in Dubai and won two games in a row for the first time since last September. After yesterday’s declassification of the Italian Camila Giorgio, she also dealt with the world number two today Aryna Sabalenkovawhich she defeated 6-4 6-4.
The Czech winner of the 2013 tournament lost in each set. She turned the first set from 2-3 and the second from 0-2. She adjusted the mutual balance with Belarus, who was eight years younger, to 3-2. Belarus today caught only 6 double mistakes, which is the least in the season.
From September 2019 she played with the player for the twelfth time and only for the second time and for the first time since February 2020 she defeated her.
Kvitová, 31, will face Latvia to advance to the quarterfinals Jelena Ostapenkova (h2h 4-3), which she last fought last year in Doha.
Barbora Krejčíková played its first finals on a hard surface in Dubai last year, but this year she finished in the second round after a defeat with a qualifier and currently the 146th player in the world Dajanou Jastremskou.
Krejčíková entered this season very well, reaching the fourth trophy in Sydney and advancing to the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. However, in Dubai, where she made her debut in the main competition last year until her premiere final on a hard surface, the 26-year-old Czech has failed since the first match.
The seed two already had problems in the opening round with the troubled Caroline Garcia (6-4 7-6), today she was not enough 3-6 6-7 (2) for the qualifier and currently the 146th player in the world Jastremská and scored her first defeat with tennis players out of the Top 100 since last April.
The favored Brno native did not reach the first breakballs until 3-4 in the second set, but she did not change any of the four chances. She took a turn when she didn’t allow Ukrainians five years younger to finish the match, but she didn’t play a single point in the tie-break.
Jastremská, which returned last July after the abolished doping penalty, will be in its second semifinal last year fight against Markéta Vondroušováwhich managed 6-2 6-0 s in 54 minutes Varvara Gračová from Russia and will play the first quarterfinals of the season. The Czech tennis player, like Jastremská, advanced to the main stage of qualification. Both have already won five matches in Dubai.
Last year’s champion Muguruza also finished at the gates of the quarterfinals
Shortly after last year’s finalist Barbora Krejčíková, the last champion said goodbye to the prestigious event in Dubai in the second round Garbiñe Muguruzaová. The deployed Spaniard, who had problems with Kateřina Siniaková yesterday, lost 6-3 4-6 4-6 after two and a quarter hours of fighting. Veronica Kuděrmetová. Russia will fight for the semifinals with a lucky loser Jil Teichmannovou (H2H 2-0).
TEichmann lost to Siniak in the final, but got a second chance. In the main competition, without losing the set, Elise Mertensová and the seeded Elina Svitolinová (7-6 6-2) lost and advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time in the season.
| • Singles – Round 2 • |
| Kvitova (CR) – Sabalenkova (1-BEL) 6-4 6-4 |
| Vondroušová (CZE) – Gračovová (RUS) 6-2 6-0 |
| Jastremská (UKR) – Krejcikova (2-CR) 6-3 7-6(3) |
| Kudermetova (RUS) – Muguruza (4-Sp.) 3-6 6-4 6-4 |
| Ostapenková (LVA) – Šwiateková (6-POL) 4-6 6-1 7-6 (4) |
| Jaburova (8-TUN) – Pegula (USA) 6-3 6-1 |
| Teichmannová (Switzerland) – Svitolinová (10-UKR) 7-6 (0) 6-2 |
| Halepová – Ruseová (both ROU) 6-3 6-2 |
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