Qatar Open: Zheng defeats Linette in first match since Australian Open final, makes last 16
Qinwen Zheng beat Magda Linette 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 and will face the winner of the match between Paula Badosa and Leylah Fernandez in the next round
Qinwen Zheng at the 2024 Australian Open (Action Plus/Panoramic)
Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 5 seed, beat Pole Magda Linette 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 to advance to the last 16 of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday.
Zheng, ranked No 7, will play the winner of the match between Spanish wildcard Paula Badosa and Canadian Leylah Fernandez next.
Linette, ranked No 53, won against Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino (6-1, 6-4) in the previous round of the Qatar tournament.
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
- Ons Jabeur vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Petra Martic vs. Naomi Osaka
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
- Danielle Collins vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Erika Andreeva vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Linda Noskova vs. Maria Sakkari
- Xinyu Wang vs. Victoria Azarenka: tuesday
- Emma Navarro vs. Elise Mertens: tuesday
- Paula Badosa vs. Leylah Fernandez: tuesday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Marta Kostyuk: 2-1 ret.
- 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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