Leylah Fernandez stuns eighth seed Emma Navarro as Iga Swiatek sweeps aside Maria Sakkari at Qatar Open
Match Report
The Qatar Open continues with Day Two seeing a shock win for Leylah Fernandez as Emma Navarro has been dumped out on her return to action after the Australian Open. While Iga Swiatek has begun her title defence.
Fernandez sealed a 6-2, 6-2 win over Navarro with Greet Minnen also swept aside yesterday. It was a good week last time out for the Canadian who lost out to Ashlyn Krueger who went on to reach the final.
Krueger though it seemed didn't benefit from the quick turnaround after losing the final of Abu Dhabi to Belinda Bencic. Sofia Kenin accounted for her pretty easily 6-4, 6-4 earlier today. While defending multi time champion Iga Swiatek is also through.
A tough second round tie awaited against Maria Sakkari who saw off Elena-Gabriela Ruse yesterday albeit through retirement but it was a step too far yet in the Greek's comeback who lost pretty easily 6-3, 6-2 in the end. She moves on to attempt to find form again.
Other victors include Daria Kasatkina who won in a whitewash double bagel win over Polina Kudermetova 6-0, 6-0. Her sister Veronika also lost in three sets to Magda Linette.
While there were wins also for Jelena Ostapenko, Rebecca Sramkova as well as Linda Noskova. The latter started the day off easing past Donna Vekic 6-2, 6-4. With most having not played since the Australian Open, the unpredictable nature of the WTA tour continues with many top names heading home.
Later this afternoon Peyton Stearns takes on Dayana Yastremska, while Elina Svitolina will take on Marketa Vondrousova. Paula Badosa concludes the day against Katerina Siniakova. Will there be any more shocks in store in Doha to begin day two?
While Swiatek has eased through, others have found it a bit more difficult to find their way into the next round it seems.
🚨 Upset alert: @leylahfernandez ousts the No. 8 seed Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-2 and advances to the Third Round!#QatarTotalEnergiesOpen pic.twitter.com/dzgAbZY3wH
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mandoist11-02-2025 - "Intensified" ??? Yeah, right. Nothing has changed... nothing has "intensified"; only continued.mandoist10-02-2025
- Bencic is all business right now. If Rybakina is the ice queen, then Bencic is Antarctica—colder, sharper, and seemingly unstoppable. 🔥❄️MrAndreeva07-02-2025
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- they need to change the rules on the WTA to limit wildcards more effectively like they have on the ATPSososo06-02-2025
- This is just getting beyond ridiculous!! Not to mention unsportsmanlike and unfair to serious up & coming contenders.mandoist06-02-2025
- No, writer, we were not "stunned". If you knew your business you would have been aware of her statement last weekend re: her knee and retirement. The main take-away here is that Simona went out on her own terms. She surely wanted to play again after WTA & ITIA screwed her out of her final productive seasons. Personally, I believed she was going to make this announcement when I saw the President and his family in their box seats. Good for Simone -- now she can move on to other things as she said she would.mandoist04-02-2025
- It sounds seriously absurd that in Davis Cup, (unlike Grand Slams such as the Aus Open), medical time outs off court with the medical staff are not allowed?? I mean, if this was an Aus Open match, and the same thing happened to Gurin then, he would have been able to go off court for official medical time out and make an informed decision whether to resume the match or retire. How come such conditions do not apply in Davis Cup?? I mean, there with Davis Cup, it is even more like a soccer match or basketball game in that teams are playing. And so as with those, it ought to be the case in tennis that if a player needs serious medical time out, then one of the other team mates ought to substitute and each team needs to have stand-ins or understudies in case substitution is needed which will be rare but as we can see here, this kind of circumstance fits. But even if the teams do not go down the road of subbing other team mates in, in case of a health issue like the one which played out here, at least, as in the Aus Open and other Grand Slams, there ought to be time-outs with the health professionals and at the conclusion of these time-outs, the particular decision that has been reached between them and the player needs to be taken on board by the umpire. PERIOD.
Sueiyin04-02-2025 - "If Novak did this, he would be defaulted for life. WTF." 🤣 WTF sounds like What Tennis Fury?! What Tennis Flurry??! I mean, se-rious-ly, it was actually the unfairness of the silly umpire's decision that is the issue here! Further, how come it was Gurin & his team who got disqualified? If this kind of thing happens in soccer, it would be the other guy getting the yellow or red card! Because after all, it was the Belgian who's foul it was so why then penalize the opponents for something they didn't instigate? Fouls in both basketball and soccer are read as a hinderance that has been caused by the player who INITIALLY instigated the hinderance. In this case, okay, it is tennis, but while the precise rules are different to either soccer or basketball, the same type of recognition as to whoever instigates a hinderance should apply, and in this case, it was the Belgian player.Sueiyin04-02-2025
