Dubai Open: Mertens brushes aside Fernandez, moves into second round
Elise Mertens defeated Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2. She’ll face Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, in the next round
Elise Mertens | © ZM / Panoramic
Belgian Elise Mertens defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Dubai Open at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre.
Mertens, ranked No 32, will play Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, next.
Dubai WTA 1000, other first-round results (The Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Ons Jabeur vs. Peyton Stearns
- Eva Lys vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
- McCartney Kessler vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Magdalena Frech
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Clara Tauson
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Emma Raducanu
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Suzan Lamens vs. Karolina Muchova
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Caroline Garcia
- Belinda Bencic vs. Aoi Ito
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Donna Vekic vs. Sofia Kenin
- Magda Linette vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Linda Noskova vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Paula Badosa beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-4
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
