Iga Swiatek kicked off her Doha campaign with a straight-sets win over Maria Sakkari, setting her sights on becoming just the second woman this century to capture the same title four years running.

Three-time defending champion Iga Swiatek of Poland rolled into the third round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win Monday against Maria Sakkari of Greece.

Iga Swiatek has arrived in Doha for the season’s first WTA 1000 event. Ahead of her first-round match against an unseeded ...

Last March, the top-ranked men’s player ... Then, in August, Iga Swiatek, a former women’s No. 1, tested positive for a banned substance, trimetazidine (also known as TMZ).