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Two-time defending champion Elina Svitolina looks to return to the semifinals at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships as she closes out the night session vs

Carla Suárez Navarro on quarterfinal Thursday.-A +AWTA StaffFebruary 20, 2019 CENTRE COURT start 2:00 p

m.HSIEH Su-wei (TPE) vs [4] Karolina PLISKOVA (CZE) Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK) vs [2] Petra KVITOVA (CZE)  Not Before 7:00 p

m.[3] Simona HALEP (ROU) vs B. Bencic (SUI) or [8] A. Sabalenka (BLR) Carla SUAREZ NAVARRO (ESP) vs [6] Elina SVITOLINA (UKR) COURT 1 start 2:00 p

m.[4] Gabriela DABROWSKI (CAN) / XU Yi-fan (CHN) vs [7] Lucie HRADECKA (CZE) / Ekaterina MAKAROVA (RUS) Lara ARRUABARREN (ESP) / Kaitlyn CHRISTIAN (USA) vs [6] Jelena OSTAPENKO (LAT) / Katerina SINIAKOVA (CZE) [8] Anna-Lena GROENEFELD (GER) / Demi SCHUURS (NED) vs [3] HSIEH Su-wei (TPE) / Barbora STRYCOVA (CZE) [9] CHAN Hao-ching (TPE) / Latisha CHAN (TPE) vs Darija JURAK (CRO) / Raluca OLARU (ROU) Head down, keep fighting 💪@DDFTennis pic

twitter.com/56PjCUwqFE — Simona Halep (@Simona_Halep) February 20, 2019  MATCH POINTS By winning her quarterfinal match against Muguruza, Svitolina captured her 15th career match victory in Dubai, trailing only  Caroline Wozniacki (22), Jelena Jankovic (21) and Venus Williams (19) among active players

  Eleven of those wins have been consecutive, and she trailed only Justine Henin (17) and Venus Williams (16) in that stat

  Halep's quarterfinal victory over Eugenie Bouchard could prove key to her hopes of winning the title: in the pair's previous three meetings, the winner of their match has gone on to reach the final of that particular tournament

 The Romanian's quarterfinal victory was her 200th at main-draw level on hard courts

 Thursday marks Suárez Navarro's third career appearance in the Dubai quarterfinals (2014 and 2015), but she has never reached the semifinals

  The best result by a Czech player in Dubai was Kvitova's title run in 2013, but Pliskova was the 2015 runner-up to Halep

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The World's Best Battle Round: What to Expect Tonight | Heavy.com

The World's Best, CBS' new hit talent show, features contestants from all over the world who will get a chance to showcase their talents and battle it out to become "the world's best" and take home one million dollars.

The CBS competition, which is hosted by James Corden, will be judged by Drew Barrymore, RuPaul Charles and Faith Hill.

The contestant will have to impress the judges and break through the "wall of the world," which is made up of over 50 entertainment experts from around the world, according to International Business Times.

The experts offer feedback to the contestants and help decide who will move forward in the competition. The American judges score each act from 1 to 50, and their scores are averaged.

Each approving expert gets one point, and the combined scores are added up, with 75 needed to advance, according to USA Today.

Tonight's episode will feature the Battle Round, where each of the contestants are split up into groups to attempt to make it to the next round and avoid elimination.

They will be divided into different groups: Solo Music, Group Music, Solo Variety, and Group Variety.

The show is airing a two-hour special for tonight's battle round on CBS Television Network, beginning at 9/8c.

The acts going head-to-head in "The Battle Round, Part 1" are listed below, courtesy of Broadway World:.

• Japan's Manami Ito ("The Miracle Violinist") vs.

Kazakhstan's Daneliya Tuleshova ("The Vocal Wonder").

• India's Lydian Nadhaswaram ("Mini Maestro") vs.

Mongolia's Enkh-Erdene ("The Mongolian Cowboy").

• Italy's Sister Cristina Scuccia ("The Singing Nun") vs.

Kazakhstan's Dimash Kudaibergen ("The Six Octave Man").

• United States' Justin Flom ("King of Cards") vs.

United States' Jordan McKnight ("Twisted Sister").

• Great Britain's Matt Johnson ("The Drowning Man") vs.

China's Li Wei ("Slackline Daredevil").

Only one of these vocal powerhouses will make it through the Battle Round.

Will it be #TWBDimash or #TWBSisterCristina? #WorldsBest pic.twitter.com/ZjoGmiiDon — The World's Best (@WorldsBestCBS) February 20, 2019    .

So far, the show has received rave reviews, and has been compared to the likes of America's Got Talent and The Voice, which isn't altogether surprising since producer Mark Burnett also helped produce The Voice.

"The time has come to take talent competition shows to the next level and bring in judges from around the world to decide on the ultimate winner," executive producer Mark Burnett said in a press release.

"It's like the Olympics for entertainment, but you don't have to wait every two years," he added.

According to CBS, fans will have a chance to vote during every episode of the show for their favorite contestant, and voice their opinions on who "stole the show" by tweeting their vote with the corresponding hashtag.

Check out examples below:.

Kukkiwon – #TWBKukkiwon The TNT Boys – #TWBTNTBoys Space Cowboy – #TWBSpaceCowboy Enkh-Erdene – #TWBEnkh Manami Ito – #TWBManami Matt Johnson – #TWBMatt.

Then, the week leading up to the finale, fans will get to vote for their favorite act from the entire season to be named Fan Favorite, for which the act will win an even larger sum of money than the winning pot of $1 million.

Who do you think will be eliminated during the Battle Round tonight, and who do you think will go on to compete in the finals? Tune in tonight at 8 p.m.

EST/PT to catch the fourth episode of The World's Best, and don't forget to cast your vote!.

READ NEXT: The "Wall of the World" International Panel of Experts.