Qatar Open: Fernandez races into second round
Leylah Fernandez defeated Greet Minnen 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday afternoon and will play No 8 seed Emma Navarro in the next round
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Canadian Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the Qatar Open by winning against Belgian qualifier Greet Minnen 6-1, 6-2 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday.
Fernandez, ranked No 27, will face No 8 seed Emma Navarro 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
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Zeynep Sonmez: sunday
- Elise Mertens beat Clara Tauson: 6-0 ret.
- Maria Sakkari beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 4-0 ret.
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Anna Kalinskaya (14): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
- Caroline Garcia (WC) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
