Qatar Open: Borges beats Virtanen to make second round

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)