Wins for Nadal, Ferrer and Murray in Doha

Top seed Rafael Nadal, second seed David Ferrer and third seed Andy Murray opened the new tennis season with first round wins on the last day of 2013.

Murray had the easiest path to victory barely breaking a sweat during his 6-0, 6-0 win over 2,129th-ranked Qatari wildcard recipient Mousa Shanan Zayed.

The match took all of 37-minutes and Murray hit the practice courts afterwards for a little extra court time.

Nadal breezed through the opening set, but was tested in the second set by Lukas Rosol before the world No. 1 secured a 6-2, 7-6 (7) win on his fifth match point of the tiebreaker.

Ferrer needed three sets to come up with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine.

Defending champion and fifth seed Richard Gasquet also moved along to the second round with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Egyptian wildcard recipient Karim Hossam.

In other matches Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany beat Pablo Andujar of Spain 7-6(7), 6-2; Florian Mayer of Germany beat Michal Przysiezny of Poland 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(5); Ernests Gulbis of Latvia beat Daniel Evans of Britain 6-2, 4-6, 6-0