Roland-Garros: Mertens books spot in third round
Elise Mertens won against Petra Martic 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday evening. She’ll face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, in the next round
Elise Mertens – Zuma / Panoramic
Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 25 seed, defeated Croat Petra Martic 6-4, 6-3 to move into the third round of Roland-Garros in Paris.
Mertens, ranked No 27, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, next.
The Belgian won against Argentinian Maria Lourdes Carle (6-3, 7-6 (8)) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round, Martic, ranked No 81, won against French wildcard Kristina Mladenovic (6-4, 6-4).
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Sara Errani vs. Emma Navarro
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Linda Noskova
- Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anna Blinkova: thursday
- Marie Bouzkova beat Jana Fett (LL): 6-2, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-1, 6-4
- Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-4
- Madison Keys (14) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-0, 7-6 (7)
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson: thursday
- Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-2, 6-1
- Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 0-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (15) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Danielle Collins (11): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina beat Arantxa Rus: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Moyuka Uchijima (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Yulia Putintseva: 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
- Dayana Yastremska (30) beat Yafan Wang: 6-2, 6-0
- Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Katerina Siniakova (32): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6)
- Donna Vekic beat Marta Kostyuk (18): 7-5, 6-4
- Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-5, 5-7, 6-1
- Anastasia Potapova beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-2, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5
- Ons Jabeur (8) beat Camila Osorio: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin beat Caroline Garcia (21): 6-3, 6-3
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