Day 5 of the WTA Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships will host the quarter-finals as the eight remaining players aim to reach the final four.
All of the singles matches will take place on Centre Court, with the doubles quarter-finals on Court One. Here is Wednesday's order of play [denotes seeding].
Centre Court
Starts at 2pm:
Su-Wei Hsieh v Karolina Pliskova [4]
Viktoria Kuzmova v Petra Kvitova [2]
Not before 7pm:
Simona Halep [3] v Belinda Bencic
Carla Suárez Navarro v Elina Svitolina [6]
Court One
Starts at 2pm:
Gabriela Dabrowski [4] and Yifan Xu[4] v Lucie Hradecka [7] and Ekaterina Makarova[7]
Lara Arruabarrena and Kaitlyn Christian v Jelena Ostapenko [6] and Katerina Siniakova [6]
Anna-Lena Groenefeld [8] and Demi Schuurs [8] v Su-Wei Hsieh [3] and Barbora Strycova [3]
Hao-Ching Chan [9] Latisha Chan [9] v Darija Jurak and Raluca Olaru
The specs
Price: From Dh529,000
Engine: 5-litre V8
Transmission: Eight-speed auto
Power: 520hp
Torque: 625Nm
Fuel economy, combined: 12.8L/100km
In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
