Qatar Open: Bencic through to second round
Belinda Bencic won against Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 6-1 on Tuesday afternoon and will play Belarusian wildcard Victoria Azarenka in the next round
Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 7 seed, won against Bulgarian qualifier Viktoriya Tomova 6-0, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday.
Bencic, ranked No 9, will face Belarusian wildcard Victoria Azarenka next.
Doha WTA 500, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Rebecca Marino
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Paula Badosa vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: tuesday
- Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Liudmila Samsonova: 6-3, 6-1
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Madison Keys: 7-5, 6-2
- Petra Kvitova beat Shuai Zhang: 7-5, 6-2
- Danielle Collins beat Elise Mertens (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Victoria Azarenka beat Ipek Oz (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- Veronika Kudermetova (8) beat Barbora Krejcikova: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-2
