DUBAI — Caroline Wozniacki served for the match three times before finally beating Samantha Stosur 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 Tuesday in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. The third-seeded Dane led 5-2 in the third set but struggled to close it out. “They do say third time lucky, right?” Wozniacki said. “I was hoping for that.” Wozniacki has been ill with a headache, sore throat and hoarseness since arriving in Dubai, and on the first point of the match a recurring left knee problem surfaced. After losing the first set, the former top-ranked player took a medical time out to have her knee treated. Fourth-seeded Ana Ivanovic, out with a broken toe since a first-round exit at the Australian Open, beat Sabine Lisicki 6-0, 6-3, while fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Caroline Garcia 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Also advancing was 13th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, who beat Camila Giorgi 6-3, 6-4. Three seeded players lost: Petkovic fell to Zarina Diyas 7-5, 6-3; Jelena Jankovic lost to Garbine Muguruza 6-3, 6-4; and Peng Shuai was beaten by Tsvetana Pironkova 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5). In late matches: Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic beat Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Flavia Pennetta of Italy beat Wang Qiang of China 6-3, 7-5; and Angelique Kerber of Germany beat Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 7-6(9), 6-4. On Monday, defending champion Venus Williams beat an opponent half her age Monday, winning 6-1, 6-2 against 17-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland. Fognini advances In Rio, fourth-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy advanced to the second round of the Rio Open by defeating Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic 6-1, 7-6 (7) Tuesday. Fognini joins No. 3 Tommy Robredo of Spain, who advanced Monday. On the women's side of the combined ATP-WTA clay-court event, three unseeded players moved into the second round: Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, Veronica Cepede Royg of Paraguay and Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States. On Monday, second-seeded Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania advanced to the second round, defeating Olivia Rogowska of Australia 6-1, 6-3 in the outdoor clay event. On the men's side in the combined ATP-WTA event, No. 3 Tommy Robredo of Spain defeated Elias Ymer of Sweden 6-4, 6-3. Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, and Jarkko Nieminen of Finland ousted qualifier Marco Cecchinato of Italy 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Dolgopolov beats Gabashvili In Florida, third-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine won just his second match of the ATP season with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 victory over Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in the first round of the Delray Beach Open Monday. He was joined in the second round by wild card Denis Kudla, a 22-year-old resident of nearby Boca Raton, who beat Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-3, 6-4. Ivo Karlovic, who lost to Dustin Brown in two previous meetings last year, beat the 30-year-old in a night match 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2. Coric beats Istomin In France, rising teen star Borna Coric of Croatia beat Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 7-5 to reach the second round of the Open 13 tournament Monday. Also Monday, Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky downed eighth-seeded Czech player Lukas Rosol 6-3, 6-2 in less than one hour. — Agencies
