1 Hsieh Su-wei on Wednesday crashed out of the second round of the singles at the Qatar Open, before returning to the hard courts to be dumped out of the first round of the doubles in a super tiebreak. 31 Hsieh fell 6-2, 6-4 to world No. In other singles matches, top seed Simona Halep eased into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko. 3 Halep, who received a bye in the opening round, was next due to face ninth seed Julia Goerges. Svitolina began her campaign with a 6-4, 6-4 win over 2017 French Open champion Ostapenko, avenging her two previous losses to the Latvian.

Source: Taipei Times February 14, 2019 16:04 UTC