Qatar Open: Rybakina cruises past Zhu to reach last 16
Elena Rybakina won against Lin Zhu 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday evening. She’ll face American Emma Navarro, the No 16 seed, in the next round
Elena Rybakina, Abu Dhabi 2024 – © Kamran Jebreili/AP/SIPA
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, beat Chinese Lin Zhu 6-2, 6-1 to move into the last 16 of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.
Rybakina, ranked No 4, will play American Emma Navarro, the No 16 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Qatar tournament, Zhu, ranked No 57, defeated Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-1, 6-1).
Doha WTA 1000, other second-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Naomi Osaka beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 7-6 (9)
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-3, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (8) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-0, 6-3
- 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 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
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