The 24th edition of the Dubai Duty Free Women’s Tennis Championship, which closed the day before yesterday, was marked by four unprecedented scenes in the tournament’s history, most notably the Italian Jasmine Paolini’s crowning of the title, becoming the third ranked player from her country to be crowned in the women’s professional tournaments around the world. Within 1000 points, as well as the success of a player who came from the qualifying rounds in reaching the final match, namely Russian Anna Kalinskaya, ranked 40th in the world, who lost the final match to the Italian champion Paolini.
The 2024 edition was also distinguished, compared to its predecessors, by recording the largest number of matches in which female players needed to exceed the two-hour barrier to ensure their victory, and they appeared on 12 occasions throughout the tournament rounds.
Emirates Today monitors the four scenes that amazed the Dubai Women’s Tennis audience in the 2024 edition.
Italian star
He dedicated the title of the 24th edition of “Dubai Tennis” to the Italian Jasmine Paolini, making her the third player from her country to be crowned in the professional women’s tournaments around the world ranked within 1000 points, after her compatriot Flavia Pinta, who won the title in Indiana Wells in 2014, and Camilla Giorgi, who was crowned champion. In Montreal in 2021, Paolini also became the first Italian to lift the “Dalla Dubai” within the same classification (1000 points), and the second Italian player to succeed in winning the Dubai title, after her compatriot Sara Errani, who won the title in 2016 when the tournament classification was in the 500 points category. .
Phenomenon Kalinskaya
Russian star Anna Kalinskaya impressed the “Dubai Tennis” audience, as it was the first time that a player coming from the qualifying rounds succeeded in reaching the final match, after a career during which she passed the qualifying rounds, by defeating both Rebekah Masarova and her compatriot Kamila Rakhimova, and she also became… Kalinskaya is the first player in 15 years to achieve this achievement in the history of professional women’s tournaments around the world classified in the 1000 points category.
An exceptional journey
The two players, Jasmine Paolini and Anna Kalinskaya, wrote their best careers in the world of yellow tennis, whether the champion Paolini, who succeeded for the first time during her career in achieving three consecutive victories against players among the 30 ranked players in the world, or in terms of the Russian talent, I, who left a unique mark on the history of “tennis.” Dubai” for women, by reaching the final after successfully eliminating the first and third seeds in the world, both in the quarter-finals, which came at the expense of the American third seed, Coco Gauff, and followed in the semi-finals by defeating the Polish first seed, Iga Szyvontek.
Crowd fun
A hearty meal was provided by the matches of the 24th edition, after 12 of its matches exceeded the two-hour barrier, in a record that was not witnessed in the tournament, the most prominent of which came in two matches in the first round, each of which clocked two hours and 43 minutes, and the first match witnessed the success of the Japanese Nao Hibino, coming from the qualifying rounds. The 93rd seed in the world defeated Polish Magda Lynette, the 53rd seed in the world, in two sets to one set (2-6, 6-3, 6-4). In the second match, American 23rd seed Emma Navarro defeated Czech Katerina Sinakova, seeded 42nd, in two sets to one set (4-6). 7-5 and 6-4).
2024-02-26 00:05:00
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