Qatar Open: Bucsa upsets Kalinskaya to reach round two
Cristina Bucsa edged out Anna Kalinskaya 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday afternoon and will face Belgian Elise Mertens in the next round
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Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa advanced to the second round of the Qatar Open by edging out Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 14 seed, 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday afternoon.
Bucsa, ranked No 98, will play Belgian Elise Mertens next.
Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Donna Vekic vs. Linda Noskova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Rebecca Sramkova
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Peyton Stearns
- Aoi Ito vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Sofia Kenin
- McCartney Kessler vs. Ons Jabeur
- Paula Badosa vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Magda Linette
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elina Svitolina
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Emma Raducanu vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Xinyu Wang
- Katie Volynets vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Lulu Sun: sunday
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Zeynep Sonmez: sunday
- Leylah Fernandez beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Elise Mertens beat Clara Tauson: 6-0 ret.
- Maria Sakkari beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 4-0 ret.
- Caroline Garcia (WC) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
