Qatar Open: Navarro sweeps past Mertens and into last 16

American Emma Navarro, the No 16 seed, beat Belgian Elise Mertens 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last 16 of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.

Navarro, ranked No 23, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Lin Zhu and Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, next.

Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old American defeated Italian Jasmine Paolini (6-3, 7-5).

Mertens, ranked No 25, beat American Peyton Stearns (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Qatar tournament.

Doha WTA 1000, other second-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Lin Zhu vs. Elena Rybakina
• Ons Jabeur vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Petra Martic vs. Naomi Osaka
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
• Danielle Collins vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Erika Andreeva vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Linda Noskova vs. Maria Sakkari
• Xinyu Wang vs. Victoria Azarenka: tuesday
• Paula Badosa vs. Leylah Fernandez: tuesday
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Marta Kostyuk: 2-1 ret.
• Qinwen Zheng (5) beat Magda Linette: 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova (6) beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-2, 0-6, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-1, 6-1