Qatar Open: Garcia moves into second round
Caroline Garcia won against Yue Yuan 6-1, 7-6 (5) on Sunday afternoon. She’ll play No 4 seed Jasmine Paolini in the next round
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French wildcard Caroline Garcia beat Chinese Yue Yuan 6-1, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday.
Garcia, ranked No 76, will play No 4 seed Jasmine Paolini next.
Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Donna Vekic vs. Linda Noskova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Peyton Stearns
- Aoi Ito vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Sofia Kenin
- McCartney Kessler vs. Ons Jabeur
- Paula Badosa vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Magda Linette
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elina Svitolina
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Xinyu Wang
- Emma Raducanu vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Katie Volynets vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Lulu Sun
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Zeynep Sonmez
- Greet Minnen vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Elise Mertens vs. Clara Tauson: sunday
- Maria Sakkari vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse: sunday
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Kalinskaya: sunday
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
