Leylah Fernandez wins opening match in Dubai, will face top-ranked Iga Swiatek

Leylah Fernandez won her opening match at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Sunday, defeating Austrian qualifier Julia Grabher 6-4, 6-2.

The 20-year-old from Laval, Que., took one hour and 14 minutes to claim her second straight-sets victory over the 90th-ranked Grabher this season.

Fernandez, ranked No. 37 in the world, will face top-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland in the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament on Tuesday.

Swiatek beat Fernandez in straight sets last year in the second round of the Adelaide International in their only previous meeting, and she is coming off a successful title defence at the Qatar Open on Saturday.

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Fellow Canadian Bianca Andreescu is set to take on ninth-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the opening round on Monday.

Rybakina was runner-up at the Australian Open last month, falling to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

Fernandez is also competing in doubles in Dubai alongside former world No. 1 doubles player Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States.

Fernandez and Mattek-Sands open the tournament against Brazil's Luisa Stefani and Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina on Monday.

Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz won his first title since his milestone U.S. Open triumph by beating Cameron Norrie in straight sets at the Argentina Open on Sunday in Buenos Aires.

The world No. 2 overcame No. 12 Norrie 6-3, 7-5 in the clay-court final.

"I felt very comfortable," Alcaraz said. "This is the level that I have to play in a final. It is really special, I struggled in these four months."

A right leg injury sidelined Alcaraz from the Australian Open, with Novak Djokovic reclaiming the No. 1 ranking from Alcaraz after winning the title there.

The 19-year-old