Qatar Open: Ostapenko brushes aside qualifier Ito to make second round
Jelena Ostapenko defeated Aoi Ito 6-2, 6-1 on Monday and will face Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 16 seed, in the next round
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Qatar Total Energies Open •Second round •
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Latvian Jelena Ostapenko reached the second round of the Qatar Open by winning against Japanese qualifier Aoi Ito 6-2, 6-1 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.
Ostapenko, ranked No 37, will face Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 16 seed, next.
Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Paula Badosa vs. Katerina Siniakova
- McCartney Kessler vs. Ons Jabeur
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elina Svitolina
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Peyton Stearns
- Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Polina Kudermetova (LL): 6-0, 6-0
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Magda Linette: monday
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Moyuka Uchijima: monday
- Linda Noskova beat Donna Vekic (15): 6-2, 6-4
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-2, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-4, 6-4
- Amanda Anisimova beat Victoria Azarenka: 6-3, 7-5
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-3, 7-5
- Magdalena Frech beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Elina Avanesyan beat Xinyu Wang: 7-6 (3), 1-6, 7-6 (5)
- Mirra Andreeva (12) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Liudmila Samsonova beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk beat Zeynep Sonmez (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez beat Greet Minnen (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- 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)
