Big week of tennis on 4 continents

Super busy week in world tennis with five tournaments up for grabs.

Three ATP events:

Rio Open presented by Claro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ATP 500)

Open 13 Provence in Marseille, France (ATP 250)

Delray Beach Open in Delray Beach, USA (ATP 250)

Two WTA events:

Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, UAE (WTA Premier)

Hungarian Ladies Open in Budapest, Hungary (WTA International)

The biggest of the lot is clearly the Dubai tournament with seven of the world top ten competing.

Petra Kvitova, the hottest player on tour, was ranked outside the top twenty when seedings were allocated, and so is the most dangerous unseeded floating player in the draw.

The top four seeds have first round byes, a blessing for second seed Garbine Muguruza after her exhausting final on Sunday in Doha.

Opening round matches played so far:

Wildcard Naomi Osaka defeated Kiki Mladenovic (8) 6-2 6-2

Wildcard Johanna Konta (7) defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-6(2) 6-2

Daria Kasatkina defeated Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5 6-4

Elena Vesnina defeated Shuai Peng 6-4 7-5

Ekaterina Makarova defeated Anastasija Sevastova 3-6 7-6(9) 6-3

Rio de Janeiro opening round matches:

Marin Cilic (1) defeated qualifier Carlos Berlocq 6-3 6-2

Albert Ramos-Vinolas (4) defeated Rogerio Dutra Silva 6-3 3-6 6-4

Nicolas Jarry defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3 7-6(3)

Lucky Loser in qualifying Gastao Elias defeated Guido Pella 6-4 5-7 7-5

Fabio Fognini (5) defeated wildcard Thomaz Bellucci 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2

Tennys Sandgren defeated qualifier Roberto Carballes Baena 4-6 6-1 4-3 (retired)

Fernando Verdasco (8) defeated Leonardo Mayer 6-2 3-6 6-3

Marseille opening round matches:

Julien Benneteau defeated Malek Jaziri 6-4 6-3

Thomas Fabbiano defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3 6-4

Damir Dzumhur (7) defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 6-7(6) 7-6(3) 6-1

The top 4 seeds have first round byes

Delray Beach opening round matches:

Jack Sock (1) defeated John-Patrick Smith 6-4 6-4

Donald Young defeated qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1 6-2

Hyeon Chung (8) defeated lucky loser in qualifying Cameron Norrie 3-6 6-3 6-1

Wildcard Frances Tiafoe defeated Matthew Ebden 6-2 2-6 6-2

Budapest opening round matches:

Mona Barthel defeated Kateryna Kozlova 7-6(3) 5-7 6-0

Petra Martic defeated wildcard Antonia Lottner 6-4 6-2

Sabine Lisicki defeated Pauline Parmentier 0-6 6-4 6-2

Alison Van Uytvanck defeated Oceane Dodin 6-3 6-2