Qatar Open: Mensik moves into second round, beats fifth seed Davidovich Fokina

Jakub Mensik won against Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 5 seed, 7-6 (3), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday afternoon.

Mensik, ranked No 116, will play the winner of the match between French qualifier Alexandre Muller and Andy Murray next.

Doha ATP 250, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 1.395.875, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Alexandre Muller vs. Andy Murray
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Hugo Grenier
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Richard Gasquet
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Emil Ruusuvuori: tuesday
• Christopher O’Connell beat Jan-Lennard Struff (6): 6-4, 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (6)
• Marton Fucsovics beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Lorenzo Musetti (7): 6-2, 6-0
• Pavel Kotov beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 7-5