DUBAI: The draw for the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships’ WTA 1000 tournament took place on Saturday, determining the pathway to the final for the tournament’s star-filled field.
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This year’s line-up features 16 of the world’s top 20, including Australian Open winner Elena Rybakina, World No.5 Coco Gauff, and last year’s history-making Dubai champion Mirra Andreeva.
Taking place at a renovated Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, the 26th edition of the city’s women’s showpiece will run from Feb. 15-24 and boasts six Grand Slam singles winners sharing a collective nine titles between them.
While the top eight seeds all received first-round byes, top seed and World No. 3 Rybakina — triumphant in Melbourne just a few weeks ago — is on course for a second-round meeting with German Tatjana Maria. On the other half of the draw, No. 2 seed Amanda Anisimova could face two-time Grand Slam winner Barbora Krejcikova — a winner here in 2023 — in the round of 32, should the latter safely negotiate her first-round tie with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
