Dubai Open: Vekic defeats Wang to make second round

Croat Donna Vekic moved into the second round of the Dubai Open by winning against Chinese Xinyu Wang 6-2, 6-4 at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Vekic, ranked No 27, will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka next.

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

• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Arantxa Rus vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Petra Martic vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Bernarda Pera
• Paula Badosa vs. Lulu Sun
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Xiyu Wang
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Svitolina
• Sofia Kenin vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Caroline Garcia
• Elise Mertens vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Sloane Stephens vs. Clara Burel
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Storm Hunter
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Emma Navarro: sunday
• Nao Hibino vs. Magda Linette: sunday
• 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