Qatar Open: Mertens reaches second round

Belgian Elise Mertens beat American Peyton Stearns 6-2, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday afternoon.

Mertens, ranked No 25, will face the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro, the No 16 seed, and Italian Jasmine Paolini next.

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

• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Nao Hibino vs. Magda Linette
• Martina Trevisan vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Arantxa Rus vs. Petra Martic
• Magdalena Frech vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Liudmila Samsonova: monday
• Paula Badosa (WC) beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Emma Navarro vs. Jasmine Paolini: monday
• Emma Raducanu vs. Anhelina Kalinina: monday
• 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