Qatar Open: Garcia moves into second round

French wildcard Caroline Garcia beat Chinese Yue Yuan 6-1, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday.

Garcia, ranked No 76, will play No 4 seed Jasmine Paolini 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
• Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Xinyu Wang
• Emma Raducanu vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Katie Volynets vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Lulu Sun
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Zeynep Sonmez
• Greet Minnen vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Elise Mertens vs. Clara Tauson: sunday
• Maria Sakkari vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse: sunday
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Kalinskaya: sunday
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Diana Shnaider (11): 6-4, 7-6 (2)