Qualifying action at the Qatar Total Open in Doha starts on Saturday, while my photographer Jimmie48 arrived at the Premier 5 tournament a day early, capturing practice sessions of a number of main-draw players, including Agnieszka Radwanska, Dominika Cibulkova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Daria Kasatkina, Elena Vesnina, as well as qualifier Marketa Vondrousova, who plays a marquee qualifying match against Sabine Lisicki.
Keep checking back to Women’s Tennis Blog for more WTA coverage from the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in the coming days.