Qatar Open: Linette into second round

Pole Magda Linette won against Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino 6-1, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday.

Linette, ranked No 53, will face No 5 seed Qinwen Zheng 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
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin: monday
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Kasatkina: monday
• Anastasia Potapova beat Martina Trevisan (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Arantxa Rus vs. Petra Martic: monday
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka: monday
• Leylah Fernandez beat Liudmila Samsonova (12): 7-5, 7-6 (4)
• Paula Badosa (WC) 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