Qatar Open: Avanesyan advances to second round

Armenian Elina Avanesyan edged out Chinese Xinyu Wang 7-6 (3), 1-6, 7-6 (5) to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday evening.

Avanesyan, ranked No 48, will play the winner of the match between No 10 seed Daria Kasatkina and lucky loser Polina Kudermetova next.

Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):

• Paula Badosa vs. Katerina Siniakova
• McCartney Kessler vs. Ons Jabeur
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elina Svitolina
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Peyton Stearns
• Aoi Ito vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Magda Linette
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Donna Vekic vs. Linda Noskova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Sofia Kenin
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Emma Raducanu vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: sunday
• Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: sunday
• Mirra Andreeva (12) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Liudmila Samsonova (16) beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk beat Zeynep Sonmez (WC): 6-3, 6-3
• Leylah Fernandez beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Elise Mertens beat Clara Tauson: 6-0 ret.
• Maria Sakkari beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 4-0 ret.
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Anna Kalinskaya (14): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (WC) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)