Muguruza edges past Kudermetova, Martic defeats former finalist Strycova

The action continues at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with Garbine Muguruza and Petra Martic through to the third round successfully.

Muguruza battled past Veronika Kudermetova 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 to continue her good form as of late which has seen her record this year extended to 13-2 ; which included her run to the Australian Open final; as the Spaniard has proved she is very much back on form.

Despite an excellent performance against Dayana Yastremska for the latter; she couldn't produce the quality to match the in-form former Wimbledon champion barring the first set where she broke the serve of Muguruza.

A poor middle part to the set though saw Muguruza punish and produce a brilliant end to the set where it was very much close with a decisive break saw her claim it.

Kudermetova was once again out of the blocks well in the second; she went 4-1 up and despite Muguruza claiming some rhythm in the latter half, it went to the former.

Despite that, Muguruza continued to battle and a brilliant rally ended the tie; it saw her move through to a tie with Jennifer Brady in the Quarter-Finals.

Also through to the Quarter-Finals is Martic who ended the run of Barbora Strycova in a similar vein to her first round win over Su-Wei Hsieh. It was a simple 6-3, 6-3 win for the number eight seed as she lived up to her billing to dispel the former finalist who had a good run up to this point but just couldn't produce against the Croatian.

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