Qatar Open: O’Connell moves into second round, takes out sixth seed Struff

Australian Christopher O’Connell beat German Jan-Lennard Struff, the No 6 seed, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday.

O’Connell, ranked No 65, will play the winner of the match between Italian qualifier Giulio Zeppieri and Finn Emil Ruusuvuori next.

Doha ATP 250, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 1.395.875, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Alexandre Muller vs. Andy Murray
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Hugo Grenier
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Richard Gasquet
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Emil Ruusuvuori: tuesday
• Jakub Mensik vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: tuesday
• Alexei Popyrin beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (6)
• Marton Fucsovics beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Lorenzo Musetti (7): 6-2, 6-0
• Pavel Kotov beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 7-5