FINDING all the WTA Tour scores in one place can be difficult, so Rookie Me Central has you covered. Here are all the main draw results from the tennis tournaments from yesterday, February 17. For the WTA Tour, that is the WTA 500 event in Dubai.
DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | WTA 500 | Hard
No seeded players remain in the Dubai WTA 500 event after the last remaining seed bowed out in the quarter finals. It has been a remarkably open draw this tournament and it proved that once again, with two-time winner Simona Halep toppling eighth seed Ons Jabeur in straight sets. The former world number one proved too strong, continuing her great form to win 6-4 6-3 in an hour and 20 minutes to advance through to the semi-finals of the event.
Halep will now take on former Top 5 talent Jelena Ostapenko who came back from the death to see off Czech left-hander Petra Kvitova. The pair engaged in a marathon three-set match, where Kvitova twice had the chance to serve for the match in the second set, and had a mini-break in the deciding set at 4-2, before Ostapenko found a way to win in two hours and 39 minutes, claiming the deciding tiebreaker 11-9 and getting up, 5-7 7-5 7-6.
Meanwhile, Russian Veronika Kudermetova booked her place in the final four at Dubai with a three-set win over lucky loser Jil Teichmann. Her Swiss opponent certainly did not go away easily, taking out the second during the two-hour and 23-minute contest. Kudermetova won 6-2 5-7 6-4 to win through to the semi-finals, winning 42.3 per cent of her first serve return points compared to her opponents’ 32.4 per cent.
In the late match between two qualifiers, 2019 Roland Garros runner-up Marketa Vondrousova saw off fellow young talent, Dayana Yastremska. Despite the Ukrainian going to 4-3 in the second set at one stage, the Czech hit back to win the final three games of that set and claim a 7-5 6-4 victory. She now takes on the 31st ranked Kudermetova in the semi-finals, and Vondrousova is the lowest ranked remaining player in the event at 38th in the world.
QUARTER FINALS RESULTS:
Simona Halep (ROU) defeated [8] Ons Jabeur (TUN) 6-4 6-3
Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) defeated Petra Kvitova (CZE) 5-7 7-5 7-6
Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) defeated [LL] Jil Teichmann (SUI) 6-2 5-7 6-4
[Q] Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) defeated [Q] Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 7-5 6-4
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