Qatar Open: Pegula books spot in last 16
Jessica Pegula beat Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (3) on Tuesday. She’ll face the winner of the match between Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, and Armenian Elina Avanesyan in the next round
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American Jessica Pegula, the No 6 seed, defeated Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (3) to advance to the last 16 of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday afternoon.
Pegula, ranked No 5, will face the winner of the match between Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, and Armenian Elina Avanesyan next.
Svitolina, ranked No 22, edged out Marketa Vondrousova (0-6, 6-2, 7-5) in the previous round of the Qatar tournament.
Doha WTA 1000, other second-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Paula Badosa vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Magda Linette vs. Magdalena Frech
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: tuesday
- Ons Jabeur beat Qinwen Zheng (7): 6-4, 6-2
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Mirra Andreeva (12): 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Elena Rybakina (5) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Coco Gauff (3): 6-2, 7-5
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Liudmila Samsonova (16): 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Elise Mertens beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Linda Noskova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-2, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (4) beat Caroline Garcia (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez beat Emma Navarro (8): 6-2, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Maria Sakkari: 6-3, 6-2
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