Dubai Open: Badosa beats Sun to book spot in second round

Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, won against New Zealander Lulu Sun 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Badosa, ranked No 10, will face the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens and Canadian Leylah Fernandez next.

Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):

• Victoria Azarenka vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Ons Jabeur vs. Peyton Stearns
• Eva Lys vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
• McCartney Kessler vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Diana Shnaider vs. Magdalena Frech
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Clara Tauson
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Emma Raducanu
• Elina Svitolina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Suzan Lamens vs. Karolina Muchova
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Caroline Garcia
• Belinda Bencic vs. Aoi Ito
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Magda Linette vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Donna Vekic vs. Sofia Kenin
• Linda Noskova vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Elise Mertens vs. Leylah Fernandez: sunday
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3