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No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka and No. 2 Daria Kasatkina, who declined to represent Belarus and Russia in the Olympics, are getting their summer hard-court campaigns going.

Sabalenka had issue with the teres major muscle in her shoulder area which affected her serve and certainly was a cause for concern. Hopefully she’s found a way to address that because the next six weeks or so are going to be gruelling. She had a tough one Wednesday, but squeaked through. Kasatakina is already out.

And Emma Raducanu, who pulled off a gritty opening win, looked to back it up against feisty American Peyton Stearns. And did it, in straight sets.

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Mubadala Citi DC Open
Location: Washington, D.C.
Category: ATP 500 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: July 29 – Aug. 4 2024
Prize money: $2922,5731
Draws: S28 – D16

Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Final results

Singles, second round

Caroline Dolehide (USA) def [2] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 26 75 60

[Q] Amanda Anisimova (USA) def [7] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 61 67 (4) 64

[1] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. [Q] Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS) 75 46 64

[WC] Emma Raducanu (GBR) def Peyton Stearns (USA) 76 (6) 62

Doubles, first round

Jiang Xinyu / Wu Fang-Hsien (KOR) def [2] Giuliana Olmos (MEX) / Alexandra Panova (RUS) 62 62

[1] Taylor Townsend / Asia Muhammad (USA) def. Hailey Baptiste / Peyton Stearns (USA) 60 46 [10-4]

Anastasia Potapova / Yana Sizikova (RUS) def. [WC] Robin Montgomery / Clervie Ngounoue (USA) 36 76 (5) [10-4]

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