Qatar Open: Rybakina moves into last 16
Elena Rybakina won against Peyton Stearns 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Slovak Rebecca Sramkova and Russian Mirra Andreeva, the No 12 seed, in the next round
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Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 5 seed, moved into the last 16 of the Qatar Open by winning against American Peyton Stearns 6-2, 6-4 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Tuesday afternoon.
Rybakina, ranked No 7, will play the winner of the match between Slovak Rebecca Sramkova and Russian Mirra Andreeva, the No 12 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Qatar tournament, Stearns, ranked No 47, defeated Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (7-5, 6-3).
Doha WTA 1000, other second-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Paula Badosa vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Magda Linette vs. Magdalena Frech
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ons Jabeur
- Elina Svitolina vs. Jessica Pegula
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Mirra Andreeva: tuesday
- Marta Kostyuk beat Coco Gauff (3): 6-2, 7-5
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Jelena Ostapenko: tuesday
- Elise Mertens beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Linda Noskova beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-2, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (4) beat Caroline Garcia (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Sofia Kenin (WC) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez beat Emma Navarro (8): 6-2, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Maria Sakkari: 6-3, 6-2
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