Qatar Open: Borges beats Virtanen to make second round
Nuno Borges won against Otto Virtanen 7-6 (6), 6-3 and will play the winner of the match between Andrey Rublev and Alexander Bublik in the next round
Nuno Borges – Inside / Panoramic
Portuguese Nuno Borges moved into the second round of the Qatar Open by beating Finnish lucky loser Otto Virtanen 7-6 (6), 6-3 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.
Borges, ranked No 39, will face the winner of the match between Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, and Kazakh Alexander Bublik next.
Doha ATP 500, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.035.960, most recent results first):
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Hamad Medjedovic
- Quentin Halys vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Novak Djokovic vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Andrey Rublev vs. Alexander Bublik
- Karen Khachanov vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Zizou Bergs vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Roman Safiullin vs. Alex De Minaur: tuesday
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Abdullah Shelbayh: tuesday
- Luca Nardi (Q) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
- Jack Draper (8) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-2, 7-6 (4)
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Marin Cilic: 6-4, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan beat Aziz Dougaz (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Jiri Lehecka beat Grigor Dimitrov (7): 6-4, 6-4
- Christopher O’Connell (Q) beat Hady Habib (WC): 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3)
