Dubai Open: Mertens brushes aside Fernandez, moves into second round

Belgian Elise Mertens defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Mertens, ranked No 32, will play Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, 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
• Donna Vekic vs. Sofia Kenin
• Magda Linette vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Linda Noskova vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Paula Badosa beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-4
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3