Dubai Open: Parks eases past Wang to move into second round

American qualifier Alycia Parks reached the second round of the Dubai Open by winning against Chinese Xinyu Wang 6-3, 6-3 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Parks, ranked No 90, will face the winner of the match between Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, and Romanian wildcard Sorana Cirstea 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
• Lulu Sun vs. Paula Badosa: sunday