Qatar Open: Ruusuvuori upends sixth seed Evans to reach second round
Emil Ruusuvuori won against Daniel Evans 7-5, 6-4 on Tuesday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Bosnian qualifier Damir Dzumhur and Czech Jiri Lehecka in the next round
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Finn Emil Ruusuvuori won against No 6 seed Daniel Evans 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday.
Ruusuvuori, ranked No 51, will face the winner of the match between Bosnian qualifier Damir Dzumhur and Czech Jiri Lehecka next.
Doha ATP250, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 1.377.025, most recent results first):
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Abedallah Shelbayh vs. SoonWoo Kwon
- Damir Dzumhur vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Alexandre Muller: tuesday
- Botic van de Zandschulp (8) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 7-5
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Quentin Halys: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (7) beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 6-3
- Andy Murray (WC) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Liam Broady (Q) beat Oleksii Krutykh (Q): 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (2)
- Christopher O’Connell beat Fernando Verdasco (WC): 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
- Jason Kubler beat Aslan Karatsev: 7-6 (4), 1-0 ret.
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