Qatar Open: Gasquet through to second round, sets up meeting with Rublev

French wildcard Richard Gasquet beat Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday afternoon.

Gasquet, ranked No 126, will face top seed Andrey Rublev next.

Doha ATP 250, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 1.395.875, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Alexandre Muller vs. Andy Murray
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Hugo Grenier: tuesday
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Giulio Zeppieri (Q): 7-6 (2), 7-5
• Christopher O’Connell beat Jan-Lennard Struff (6): 6-4, 6-4
• Jakub Mensik beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (5): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (6)
• Marton Fucsovics beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Lorenzo Musetti (7): 6-2, 6-0
• Pavel Kotov beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-2, 7-5