Badosa tested by Zarazua before reaching second round
Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, moved into the second round of the Qatar Open by defeating Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha.
Badosa, ranked No 10, will face American Amanda Anisimova next.
Doha WTA 1000, other first-round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 3.664.963, most recent results first):
- Ons Jabeur beat McCartney Kessler: 6-2, 6-0
- Elina Svitolina beat Marketa Vondrousova: 0-6, 6-2, 7-5
- Peyton Stearns beat Dayana Yastremska: 7-5, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Polina Kudermetova (LL): 6-0, 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- Magda Linette beat Veronika Kudermetova (Q): 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Moyuka Uchijima (Q): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3
- 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 (16) 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)
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