Qatar Open: Fernandez races into second round

Canadian Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the Qatar Open by winning against Belgian qualifier Greet Minnen 6-1, 6-2 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday.

Fernandez, ranked No 27, will face No 8 seed Emma Navarro next.

Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):

• Yulia Putintseva vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Donna Vekic vs. Linda Noskova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Peyton Stearns
• Aoi Ito vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Sofia Kenin
• McCartney Kessler vs. Ons Jabeur
• Paula Badosa vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Magda Linette
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elina Svitolina
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Emma Raducanu vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Xinyu Wang
• Katie Volynets vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Lulu Sun
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Zeynep Sonmez: sunday
• Elise Mertens beat Clara Tauson: 6-0 ret.
• Maria Sakkari beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 4-0 ret.
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Anna Kalinskaya (14): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (WC) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)