Qatar Open: Martic moves into second round
Petra Martic edged out Arantxa Rus 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5) on Monday afternoon. She’ll face the winner of the match between Japanese Naomi Osaka and Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 15 seed, in the next round
Petra Martic
Croat Petra Martic edged out Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5) to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday afternoon.
Martic, ranked No 67, will face the winner of the match between Japanese Naomi Osaka and Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 15 seed, 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
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
- Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia: monday
- 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
- Victoria Azarenka beat Magdalena Frech (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- 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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