5 Seeds fall in Doha 2nd round

Doha on Day Three completed the second round and had the first number of upsets and the most significant was in the all American match between twelfth seed Madison Keys and 18 year old qualifier Catherine Bellis.

Keys had looked terrific in her first round match and was expected to be to strong for the inexperienced but talented Bellis.

Bellis had beaten Kasatkina and was in good form, but Keys took her apart in the opening set, winning just 57% of points on her serve, but 64% on her opponents serve.

This led to three service breaks and a 6-2 lead.

Bellis dominated set two, winning 75% of points on her serve and 59 points of the 100 points for the set.

She faced no break points on her serve and levelled the match at 2-6 6-3.

Set three was a disaster for Keys, the less said the better.

Bellis won one of the best matches of her career 2-6 6-3 6-0, and reaches the third round where she will play defending champion Karolina Pliskova (5).

Other second round results:

Caroline Wozniacki (1) defeated Carina Witthoeft 6-2 6-0

Qualifier Monica Niculescu defeated Magdalena Rybarikova (14) 6-7(6) 6-2 3-0 (retired)

Johanna Konta (10) defeated Carla Suárez Navarro 6-2 6-2

Angie Kerber (8) defeated Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-1

Elina Svitolina (3) defeated qualifier Marketa Vondrousova 6-2 6-4

Petra Kvitova (16) defeated Agnieszka Radwanska 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4

Julia Goerges (9) defeated Barbora Strycova 6-2 3-6 6-1

Mihaela Buzarnescu defeated Jelena Ostapenko (6) 6-1 6-3

Qualifier Anna Blinkova defeated Kiki Mladenovic (11) 6-3 6-3

Sorana Cirstea defeated Elise Mertens (15) 7-5 6-4

Karolina Pliskova (5) defeated Alize Cornet 6-2 6-3

Anastasija Sevastova (13) defeated qualifier Naomi Osaka 6-4 6-1

Simona Halep (2) defeated Ekaterina Makarova 6-3 6-0

Rotterdam:

Final first round matches:

Wildcard Roger Federer (1) defeated qualifier Ruben Bemelmans 6-1 6-2

Robin Haase defeated wildcard Thiemo de Bakker 6-2 6-2

Qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert defeated Richard Gasquet 3-1 (retired)

Andrey Rublev defeated Lucas Pouille (7) 7-5 6-4

Damir Dzumhur defeated Marius Copil 6-4 6-4

Grigor Dimitrov (2) defeated Yuichi Sugita 6-4 7-6(5)

Second round:

Lucky Loser from qualifying Andreas Seppi defeated Sascha Zverev (3) 6-4 6-3

Tomas Berdych (6) defeated Viktor Troicki 6-1 6-2

David Goffin (4) defeated Feliciano López 6-1 6-

New York:

Second round:

Radu Albot defeated John Isner (3) 7-6(5) 3-6 6-3

Kei Nishikori (5) defeated Evgeny Donskoy 6-2 6-4

Qualifier Adrian Menendez-Maceiras defeated Jeremy Chardy 7-5 7-6(5)

Adrian Mannarino (4) defeated Peter Gojowczyk 6-7(5) 7-5 4-1 (retired)

Buenos Aires:

Second round:

Dominic Thiem (1) defeated Horacio Zeballos 6-4 6-3

Guido Pella defeated Fernando Verdasco (8) 6-2 6-4

Diego Schwartzman (5) defeated qualifier Thomaz Bellucci 3-6 6-3 6-2

Aljaz Bedene defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas (3) 3-6 7-5 6-1