Qatar Open: Wang makes second round, beats Haddad Maia
Xinyu Wang beat Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-1, 6-3 on Monday evening and will face Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in the next round
Xinyu Wang of China during play on Day 3 of the 2023 Womens’s ASB Classic. ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Wednesday 4 January 2023. (Photosport/Panoramic)
Chinese Xinyu Wang moved into the second round of the Qatar Open by winning against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 10 seed, 6-1, 6-3 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Monday evening.
Wang, ranked No 41, will play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 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: monday
- Naomi Osaka beat Caroline Garcia (15): 7-5, 6-4
- Linda Noskova beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (8)
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Sofia Kenin: monday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Daria Kasatkina (11): 6-2, 7-6 (2)
- 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
