{"id":473681,"date":"2026-02-17T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473681\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:46:07","slug":"kasatkina-bejlek-out-of-dubai-andreeva-bencic-advance-via-walkover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473681\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasatkina, Bejlek out of Dubai; Andreeva, Bencic advance via walkover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships winners, Mirra Andreeva and Belinda Bencic, both advanced to the third round via walkover on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/dubai\/scores\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Scores \" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scores\u00a0<\/a>| \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/dubai\/draws\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Draws\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/dubai\/order-of-play\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Order of play\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Order of play<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion and No. 5 seed Andreeva went through after Daria Kasatkina withdrew due to a right hip injury. She will face either Jaqueline Cristian or qualifier Ella Seidel in the last 16 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bencic, the 2019 champion and No. 9 seed, had been due to face wild card Sara Bejlek in an intriguing first-time encounter. Bejlek, 20, stunned the field in Abu Dhabi two weeks ago to claim her first title on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz as a qualifier, vaulting into the Top 50 as a result. However, the Czech youngster was forced to pull out due to an abdominal injury. Bencic will face either No. 7 seed Elina Svitolina or Paula Badosa in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dubai-MDS-2026-Feb-17-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dubai: Updated singles draw (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two former Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships winners, Mirra Andreeva and Belinda Bencic, both advanced to the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-473681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}