Brisbane Open: Jabeur beats Zheng to move into second round
Ons Jabeur beat Saisai Zheng 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Monday and will play No 14 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the next round
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Tunisian Ons Jabeur advanced to the second round of the Brisbane Open by beating Chinese Saisai Zheng 7-6 (5), 6-4 at the Queensland Tennis Centre.
Jabeur, ranked No 42, will face No 14 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova next.
Brisbane WTA 500, other first-round results (Queensland Tennis Centre, hard, USD 1.520.600, most recent results first):
- Anastasia Potapova beat Ana Bogdan (Q): 2-6, 6-4, 2-0 ret.
- Yue Yuan beat Arantxa Rus: 6-2, 6-4
- Anca Todoni (Q) beat Cristina Bucsa: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Polina Kudermetova (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-1, 6-3
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Yafan Wang: 6-4, 2-0 ret.
- Peyton Stearns beat Veronika Kudermetova: 6-2, 6-3
- Kimberly Birrell (WC) beat Priscilla Hon (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
- McCartney Kessler beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 6-4
- Marie Bouzkova beat Talia Gibson (WC): 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
- Anna Blinkova beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Elina Avanesyan beat Rebecca Sramkova: 1-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Renata Zarazua beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-0, 6-3
- Maya Joint (WC) beat Maddison Inglis (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Suzan Lamens beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-4
- Ashlyn Krueger beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
