Qatar Open: Ostapenko brushes aside Kalinina to move into last 16
Jelena Ostapenko beat Anhelina Kalinina 6-0, 6-3 on Tuesday evening. She’ll play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in the next round
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 8 seed, reached the last 16 of the Qatar Open by beating Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina 6-0, 6-3 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.
This win was the Latvian’s 14th of the season, having only recorded two losses over the four events she has played.
Ostapenko, ranked No 11, will play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka next.
In the previous round of the Qatar tournament, Kalinina, ranked No 30, won against wildcard Emma Raducanu (6-0, 7-6 (6)).
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
- Petra Martic vs. Naomi Osaka
- Ons Jabeur vs. Lesia Tsurenko: tuesday
- Katerina Siniakova beat Coco Gauff (2): 6-2, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Erika Andreeva (Q): 6-0, 3-6, 6-1
- Danielle Collins (Q) beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Maria Sakkari (7): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5
- Victoria Azarenka beat Xinyu Wang: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Emma Navarro (16) beat Elise Mertens: 6-1, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez beat Paula Badosa (WC): 0-6, 6-2, 6-3
- 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