Press releases

10 Mar 2021

Gerasimov moves to Marseille round two

MINSK, 10 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ world number 76 Egor Gerasimov reached the round of Last 16 in Marseille moving past Germany's world number 105 Yannick Hanfmann 6-2, 6-0, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian will face Russia’s world number 3 Daniil Medvedev for a spot in the quarterfinal.

Belarus’ world number 8 Aryna Sabalenka secured her second win at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships seeing off Estonia’s world number 24 Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 6-2. The Belarusian will next play either Poland’s world number 15 Iga Swiatek or Spain’s world number 16 Garbine Muguruza for a spot in the semifinal. Aryna Sabalenka kicked off her campaign at the 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-2, 6-4 win over France’s world number 59 Alize Cornet.

In the doubles round of Last 16 Aryna Sabalenka and Belgium’s Elise Mertens will take on the American duo of Jessica Pegula and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The Belarusian-Georgian tandem of Lidziya Marozava and Oksana Kalashnikova lost 7-6 (7-1), 0-6, 6-10 to the Russian-Romanian duo of Anastasia Potapova and Monica Niculesku in Last 32.

The tournament in Dubai will be over on 13 March, the competitions in Marseille – on 14 March.