Qatar Open: Kvitova makes second round
Petra Kvitova beat Shuai Zhang 7-5, 6-2 on Tuesday and will face No 4 seed Coco Gauff in the next round
Czech Petra Kvitova moved into the second round of the Qatar Open by winning against Chinese Shuai Zhang 7-5, 6-2 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday afternoon.
Kvitova, ranked No 13, will play No 4 seed Coco Gauff next.
Doha WTA 500, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Rebecca Marino
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Maria Sakkari vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Paula Badosa vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Madison Keys vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Sofia Kenin vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Elise Mertens vs. Danielle Collins: tuesday
- Victoria Azarenka (WC) beat Ipek Oz (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- Veronika Kudermetova (8) beat Barbora Krejcikova: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-2
