Petenis dari Prancis, Bartoli, runner-up Wimbledon 2007, memenangi hanya tiga dari delapan pertandingannya tahun ini dan di Dubai kalah 6-1 6-7 6-1 atas Francesca Schiavone dari Italia.
Frenchwoman Bartoli, the 2007 Wimbledon runner-up, has won just three of eight matches this year and was beaten 6-1 6-7 6-1 by Francesca Schiavone of Italy.