Jabeur holds off Ostapenko to reach round two in Abu Dhabi

Tunisian Ons Jabeur defeated Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 7 seed, 7-6 (4), 7-5 to move into the second round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open at the International Tennis Centre, Zayed Sports City on Tuesday evening.

Jabeur, ranked No 33, will play Japanese qualifier Wakana Sonobe next.

Abu Dhabi WTA 500, other first-round results (International Tennis Centre, Zayed Sports City, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):

• Marketa Vondrousova (WC) beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (6) beat Sofia Kenin (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Belinda Bencic (WC) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
• Magda Linette beat Renata Zarazua (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (6)
• Linda Noskova beat Magdalena Frech: 6-0, 6-3
• Leylah Fernandez (8) beat Moyuka Uchijima (LL): 7-6 (3), 7-6
• Veronika Kudermetova (LL) beat Liudmila Samsonova (5): 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (5)
• Lulu Sun beat Caroline Garcia (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Katie Volynets (Q) beat Sonay Kartal (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Ashlyn Krueger beat McCartney Kessler (Q): 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3
• Wakana Sonobe beat Yue Yuan: 6-4, 6-3