
MOSCOW, February 19 Russian Veronika Kudermetova and Belgian Elise Mertens win the Tennis tournament in Dubai in doubles, the total prize fund of which is over 700 thousand dollars. In the final, the pair, seeded at the tournament under the second number, outplayed the representative of Latvia Elena Ostapenko and Ukrainian Lyudmila Kichenok with a score of 6:1, 6:3. The duration of the match was 58 minutes. For Kudermetova, this is the third title in doubles, for Mertens — the seventh. Earlier on Saturday, Kudermetova lost to Ostapenko in the final of the singles tournament in Dubai.

