Dubai Duty Free Championships: Zheng advances to second round beating Zhang

Qinwen Zheng beat Shuai Zhang 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Sunday.

Zheng, ranked No 24, will play the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 14 seed, next.

Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Jil Teichmann vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Katarina Zavatska
• Petra Martic vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Laura Siegemund vs. Ana Bogdan
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Shelby Rogers
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Karolina Muchova vs. Bernarda Pera
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Elena Rybakina vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Ipek Oz vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Julia Grabher vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Danielle Collins
• Kaia Kanepi vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Paula Badosa vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Sofia Kenin vs. Marie Bouzkova: sunday
• Petra Kvitova (12) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-1
• Barbora Krejcikova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-4, 6-2
• Madison Keys beat Jasmine Paolini (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Dayana Yastremska (Q) beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 6-3