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Barbora Krejcikova beat an out-of-sorts Iga Swiatek 6-4 6-2 in the Dubai Tennis Championships final on Saturday (Feb 25) to end the top-ranked Pole's winning run in the Middle East swing and capture her first WTA title of 2023 and sixth overall.
DUBAI: World No.1 Iga Swiatek remains on course to make it back-to-back titles on the WTA Tour after storming into the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final with an impressive victory over fifth seed Coco Gauff in front of a delighted Center Court crowd on Friday evening.
Top seed Iga Swiatek will face former world No 2 Barbora Krejcikova in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final after both players successfully came through their semi-final matches on Friday.
Swiatek triumphed 6-4, 6-2 to set up a championship showdown with Barbora Krejcikova, who knocked out third seed Jessica Pegula 6-1, 5-7, 6-0.
Iga Swiatek breezed past Coco Gauff 6-4 6-2 to reach her first final at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The 21-year-old continued her dominant form this month, after winning the Qatar Open where she dropped just five games last week. Ad This week, in Dubai, she has beat both Leylah Fernandez and Liudmila Samsonova in straight sets, before beating Gauff on Friday.
DUBAI: World No. 30 Barbora Krejcikova produced a stunning comeback to deliver Aryna Sabalenka her first defeat of 2023 and send last month’s Australian Open champion crashing out of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships under the lights. The Czech’s reward? A semifinal clash against American Jessica Pegula, who received a walkover when her opponent Karolina Muchova withdrew with an abdominal injury.
Fifth-seeded Coco Gauff won an all-American quarterfinal on Thursday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, beating Madison Keys 6-2, 7-5 in the United Arab Emirates.
Aryna Sabalenka suffered her first defeat of the season on Thursday after Barbora Krejcikova staged a remarkable comeback to book her place in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships semi-finals.