Qatar Open: Azarenka reaches second round
Victoria Azarenka won against Magdalena Frech 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Monday afternoon. She’ll face the winner of the match between Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 10 seed, and Chinese Xinyu Wang in the next round
Victoria Azarenka in Montreal (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of the Qatar Open by defeating Pole qualifier Magdalena Frech 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday afternoon.
Azarenka, ranked No 31, will play the winner of the match between Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 10 seed, and Chinese Xinyu Wang next.
Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
- Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova: monday
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin: monday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Kasatkina: monday
- Magda Linette beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Anastasia Potapova beat Martina Trevisan (LL): 6-4, 6-4
- Arantxa Rus vs. Petra Martic: monday
- Leylah Fernandez beat Liudmila Samsonova (12): 7-5, 7-6 (4)
- Paula Badosa (WC) beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Elise Mertens beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (16) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-3, 7-5
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-0, 7-6 (6)
- Lin Zhu beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-1, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
- Erika Andreeva (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Greet Minnen (Q) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 6-1
- Danielle Collins (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (13): 7-5, 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova beat Donna Vekic: 7-5, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 7-5
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Zeynep Sonmez (WC): 7-5, 6-3
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