Qatar Open: Griekspoor maintains form to reach second round; plays top seed Rublev next

Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor edged out Frenchman Quentin Halys 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday.

Griekspoor, ranked No 40, will play top seed Andrey Rublev next.

Doha ATP250, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 1.377.025, most recent results first):

• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Abedallah Shelbayh vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Damir Dzumhur vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Alexandre Muller
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniel Evans: tuesday
• Botic van de Zandschulp (8) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 7-5
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (7) beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 6-3
• Andy Murray (WC) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Liam Broady (Q) beat Oleksii Krutykh (Q): 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (2)
• Christopher O’Connell beat Fernando Verdasco (WC): 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
• Jason Kubler beat Aslan Karatsev: 7-6 (4), 1-0 ret.