At the 2020 Qatar Open in Doha, first 4 seeded players walked through to the second round without playing a match. Stan Wawrinka already played his 2nd round match as he defeated Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 and is set to face Aljaz Bedene now.
2nd seeded Rublev will be facing Mikhail Kukushkin in his first appearance in 2020 season. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who is slowly coming back to where he was before injury, will be facing Miomir Kecmanovic. And Milos Raonic will take on qualifier Corentin Moutet.
Other matches include meetings of 6th seeded Filip Krajinovic and Fernando Verdasco. Or fifth-seeded Laslo Djere against the French doubles specialist, Pierre-Hugues Herbert.