Busy week again with the women playing the Premier tournament in Doha, bringing together 9 of the worlds top ten and 15 of the top twenty.
The men are contesting three more ATP tournaments in three different continents- Rotterdam (ATP 500), New York (ATP 250) and Buenos Aires (ATP 250).
Both Australian Open champions from January are featured - Caroline Wozniacki in Doha and Roger Federer in Rotterdam.
Federer will take over the number one ranking from Nadal should he make the semi finals.
Because Wozniacki is defending a stack of points and Halep isn’t, the live rankings before a ball is hit by either player show the lead slashed to 144. So the number one spot is up for grabs this week.
Day One was not kind for Russia on the centre court in Doha.
First match was Dominika Cibulkova against Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
The former top five Slovakian player dismissed Anastasia in a great match 7-6(8) 6-4.
Next, USA teenage qualifier Catherine Bellis removed Daria Kasatkina, the Russian retiring after trailing 5-7 1-4.
Luckily the third clash was all Russian and an upset with teenage qualifier Anna Blinkova, ranked 164, too strong for Elena Vesnina 6-1 6-3.
The fourth and final match on centre court featuring a Russian, was a disappointment for wildcard Maria Sharapova, losing to qualifier Monica Niculescu. The Romanian won a battle of the 30 year olds 4-6 6-4 6-3.
Other matches decided on Day One:
Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Mona Barthel 3-6 6-3 7-5
Mihaela Buzarnescu defeated Lesia Tsurenko 7-5 6-4
Qualifier Ying-Ying Duan defeated wildcard Ons Jabeur 6-2 6-3
Qualifier Naomi Osaka defeated Katerina Siniakova 6-4 6-0
Ekaterina Makarova defeated Shuai Zhang 7-5 6-0
Results from Rotterdam:
Sascha Zverev (3) defeated David Ferrer 6-4 6-3
Lucky Loser from qualifying Andreas Seppi defeated João Sousa 6-4 1-6 6-2
Tomas Berdych (6) defeated Mischa Zverev 7-5 6-3
Feliciano López defeated qualifier Martin Klizan 6-3 7-6(4)
Results from New York:
20 year old Frances Tiafoe defeated wildcard 17 year old Sébastian Korda in a battle of the young Americans 4-6 6-4 6-2
Dudi Sela defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili (8) 6-4 6-4
Ryan Harrison (6) defeated Donald Young 6-3 7-6(4)
Ivo Karlovic defeated Jared Donaldson 6-4 7-6(4)
Results from Buenos Aires:
Guido Pella defeated wildcard Nicolas Kicker 2-6 6-4 6-4
Dusan Lajovic defeated qualifier Facundo Bagnis 7-6(4) 6-1
Qualifier Thomaz Bellucci defeated wildcard Pedro Cachin 6-2 6-1
Federico Delbonis defeated Florian Mayer 7-6(4) 6-4
Guillermo García-López defeated wildcard Carlos Berlocq 6-3 6-3
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