Alert: Swiatek comes back to beat Osaka, one match point saved
Iga Swiatek comes back from 5-2 down in the third set to beat Naomi Osaka on Wednesday. Swiatek awaits either Croatian lucky loser Jana Fett or Marie Bouzkova in the next round.
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World No 1 Iga Swiatek reached the third round at Roland-Garros by edging out Japan’s Naomi Osaka 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5 on Wednesday evening.
Swiatek will play the winner of the match between Croat lucky loser Jana Fett and Marie Bouzkova next.
Ahead of her victory the 22-year-old Pole beat French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean (6-1, 6-2).
Osaka, ranked No 134, got past Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti (6-1, 4-6, 7-5) in the previous round.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Madison Keys vs. Mayar Sherif
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Linda Noskova
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anna Blinkova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Elina Svitolina vs. Diane Parry
- Sara Errani vs. Emma Navarro
- Arantxa Rus vs. Elena Rybakina
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Katie Volynets vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Jana Fett vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Elise Mertens vs. Petra Martic
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Xiyu Wang
- Danielle Collins vs. Olga Danilovic
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Paula Badosa vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Yafan Wang vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Chloe Paquet
- Donna Vekic vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- 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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