THURSDAY
At the Aviation Club Tennis Center
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Grant: $2,788,468
Surface: outdoor hard surface
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (AP) _ Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Thursday results at the Aviation Club Tennis Center (rankings in brackets):
Ladies singles
Quarter-finals
Iga Swiatek (1), Poland, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, unsurprisingly.
Ladies’ Doubles
Quarter-finals
Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, and Kimberley Zimmermann, Belgium, 6-0, 6-4.
Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, USA, and Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, 7-5, 7-5.
Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Jelena Ostapenko (2), Latvia, def. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Zhaoxuan Yang (7), China, 6-7 (3), 6-2, 10-8.