Qatar Open: Badosa into second round

Spanish wildcard Paula Badosa edged out American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday.

Badosa, ranked No 79, will face the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez and Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 12 seed, next.

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

• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Nao Hibino vs. Magda Linette
• Arantxa Rus vs. Petra Martic
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Peyton Stearns vs. Elise Mertens: monday
• Emma Navarro vs. Jasmine Paolini: monday
• Emma Raducanu vs. Anhelina Kalinina: monday
• Lin Zhu beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-1, 6-1
• Sorana Cirstea beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
• Erika Andreeva (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Greet Minnen (Q) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 6-1
• Danielle Collins (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (13): 7-5, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Donna Vekic: 7-5, 6-1
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 7-5
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Zeynep Sonmez (WC): 7-5, 6-3