Dubai Championships 2024: Gauff, Swiatek and Rybakina reach quarter-finals
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Coco Gauff defeated Karolina Pliskova in three sets to reach the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships despite a slow start and an argument with the chair umpire in the second set. Third seed Gauff also ended Pliskova’s 11-match winning streak by winning 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
The American player will next face Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya, who defeated ninth seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 7-5. World number one Iga Swiatek defeated two-time champion Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-4 to reach the last eight. Fourth seed Elena Rybakina had to work hard to reach the quarterfinals. She defeated Magdalena Frech 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4.
Swiatek will next face sixth-seeded Qianwen Zheng, who defeated Anastasia Potapova 6-3, 6-2. Rybakina will face Italy’s Jasmine Paolini in the quarterfinals, who defeated eighth seed Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-2. The other quarterfinal match will be played between seventh seeds Marketa Vondrousova and Sorana Cristea.
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