Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya defeated American Cori Gauff in the second round of the Dubai. The game lasted 2 hours 17 minutes and ended with a score of 2:6, 6:4, 6:2 in favor of the Russian. In the following round, Kalinskaya will face the winner of the first round match between Australia’s Igoy Shvyontek.
The 25-year-old Kalinskaya has won 40th place in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. Her best result in the tournaments of the Big Slam was reaching the second round of the Australian Open in this year. The Russian did not succeed in the tournament, losing to Kazakhstan’s Jen Cinci in three sets 6:7 (4:7), 6:3, 6:1.
Đ•ournamentin Dubai is attached to the WTA 1,000 hierarchy and is held on the “hard” coating. It will receive a prize fund of $3.2 million. From the Russian tournament, the tournament in Dubai won Elena Dementieva in 2008.