The champion of Wimbledon-2022, the 10th racket of the world, Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina reached the second round of the WTA-1000 category tournament in Dubai (UAE).
In the opening match, Rybakina (9) beat the US Open 2019 champion, Canadian Bianka Andreescu, with a score of 6:3, 6:4. The meeting lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes. Rybakina served six times, made one double fault and realized four break points out of seven. Andreescu has two aces, one double fault and two broken points out of six.
In the next round, Rybakina will fight with the representative of the Czech Republic, Mara Bouzkova.
The prize fund of the tournament in Dubai amounted to $ 2,788,468. The current champion is the representative of Latvia, Elena Ostapenko.