Qatar Open: Pavlyuchenkova advances to second round

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova advanced to the second round of the Qatar Open by defeating No 11 seed Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 7-6 (2) at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday afternoon.

Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 32, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk 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
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xinyu Wang: monday
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia: monday
• Bernarda Pera vs. Linda Noskova: monday
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin: monday
• Magda Linette beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova beat Martina Trevisan (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Petra Martic beat Arantxa Rus: 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Victoria Azarenka beat Magdalena Frech (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
• 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