Qatar Open: Fernandez moves into second round

Canadian Leylah Fernandez beat Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 12 seed, 7-5, 7-6 (4) to reach the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday.

Fernandez, ranked No 38, will play Spanish wildcard Paula Badosa next.

Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
• Nao Hibino vs. Magda Linette: monday
• Martina Trevisan vs. Anastasia Potapova: monday
• Arantxa Rus vs. Petra Martic: monday
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka: monday
• Paula Badosa beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Elise Mertens beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 6-3
• Emma Navarro (16) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-3, 7-5
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-0, 7-6 (6)
• Lin Zhu beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-1, 6-1
• Sorana Cirstea beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
• Erika Andreeva (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Greet Minnen (Q) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-1, 6-1
• Danielle Collins (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (13): 7-5, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Donna Vekic: 7-5, 6-1
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 7-5
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Zeynep Sonmez (WC): 7-5, 6-3