The main favorite of the tournament in Abu Dhabi, Daria Kasatkina, reached the quarterfinals, beating the Swiss Jill Teichmann in 3 sets with a score of 1-6, 6-0, 6-2.
Daria Kasatkina in the quarters at WTA Abu Dhabi 2023
Daria Kasatkinii, who is ranked 8th in the WTA ranking, needed one hour and 44 minutes to overtake Jill Teichmann (28th WTA).
The first set was a cold shower for the athlete from Russia, but in the second act she recovered and won with a clean score of 6-0.
The third set lasted 49 minutes, and Daria Kasatkinia managed to win 6-2 and advance to the quarterfinals.
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Top seed @DKasatkina moves to 3-0 against Teichmann from 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 in Abu Dhabi.@MubadalaADOpen | #MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen pic.twitter.com/7vYXgLlJj3
— wta (@WTA) February 9, 2023
In the next act of the competition, Kasatkina will meet Qinwen Zheng (29 WTA), who beat Yelena Ostapenko (12 WTA) in the round of 16 with a score of 7-6, 6-1.
The Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open takes place from February 6 to 12 on hard, is in the WTA 500 category, has a total prize money of $780,637, and the main favorite is Daria Kasatkina.
Abu Dhabi: Daria Kasaktina (1), Belinda Bencic (2), Olena Rybakina (3), Veronika Kudermetova (4), Yelena Ostapenko (5), Beatrice Haddad Maya (6), Anette Kontaveit (7) and Lyudmila Samsonova ( 8).
Source: Hot News
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