Dubai Open: Stephens beats qualifier Burel to reach second round

American Sloane Stephens beat French qualifier Clara Burel 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Stephens, ranked No 39, will play top seed Iga Swiatek next.

Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Daria Kasatkina vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Svitolina
• Paula Badosa vs. Lulu Sun
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Xiyu Wang
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Arantxa Rus vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Petra Martic vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Bernarda Pera
• Sofia Kenin vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Caroline Garcia
• Elise Mertens vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Jasmine Paolini beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (11): 4-6, 6-4, 6-0
• Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Emma Navarro beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Donna Vekic beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
• Nao Hibino (Q) beat Magda Linette: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
• Peyton Stearns beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
• Magdalena Frech (Q) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Tatjana Maria beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-1