Andy Murray wins Qatar Open first-round match Andy Murray barely had to break sweat as he raced to a double-bagel 6-0, 6-0 win in a mis-matched first-round match at the Qatar Open in Doha. The Wimbledon champion needed just 38 minutes to dispatch his hapless 19-year-old opponent Mousa Shanan Zayed, the wild card ranked 2,129 in the world. The home favourite was way out of his depth against the third seed, who never had to get out of first gear as he continued his comeback from the back operation which curtailed his 2013 season. Zayed won a paltry 17 points in the match and none on the Scot's first serve. Murray, who was victorious in the men's doubles on Monday, was playing in his first Tour singles match since his injury lay-off as he looks to return to top form ahead of the Australian Open. He had returned to action in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition in Abu Dhabi on Boxing Day. The 26-year-old, who had a minor operation on a long-standing back problem in September, lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before beating Stanislas Wawrinka to finish fifth. "It's good to be back," Murray said after the match. I will probably go and hit a few balls with my coach (Ivan Lendl) now as it was quite windy and there were not a lot of rallies in the match. Dan Evans went out in the opening round as he lost in three sets to Latvia's Ernests Gulbis. Evans, the world No 150, had come through three rounds of qualifying to make the main draw, but was unable to spring an upset against the seventh seed. Gulbis won 6-2, 4-6, 6-0. Meanwhile, Murray's fellow Scot Colin Fleming hopes new ATP chief Chris Kermode can help doubles players prove John McEnroe wrong. McEnroe recently called doubles players "the slow guys who were not quick enough to play singles" and said it was a mystery to him why the format was still being played. McEnroe won nine grand slam men's doubles titles in an era when most of the top singles players competed in doubles. Now the leading doubles pairs in the men's game are mostly specialists in the two-player format, with the sport's big stars competing occasionally and never at grand slams. Londoner Kermode was appointed executive chairman and president of the ATP in November after successfully running the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Doubles is a key component of the end-of-season showpiece at London's O2 Arena, with the top eight pairs playing alongside the top eight singles players. Fleming said: "He (McEnroe) was quite negative about the state of doubles. I think there should always be a place for doubles, so it was a disappointing one for current doubles players but he's entitled to his opinion so, like we always do, we've just got to go out there and make doubles exciting to watch. Fleming and Ross Hutchins are preparing to play their first tournament together in more than a year in Brisbane this week following Hutchins" recovery from cancer. Fresh from a training week at La Manga Club in Spain, the pair are optimistic of picking up where they left off and are targeting a place at the O2 in November.