Roland-Garros: Gauff overcomes slow start to move into second round
Coco Gauff defeated Rebeka Masarova 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus and Austrian Julia Grabher in the next round
American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, moved into the second round of Roland-Garros by winning against Spaniard Rebeka Masarova 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 in Paris on Tuesday.
Gauff had won their previous encounter in the Auckland final earlier this year 6-1, 6-1, so her lethargic start was a little unexpected – but she regrouped to win her 13th first-round match at a Slam.
Gauff, ranked No 6, will play the winner of the match between Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus and Austrian Julia Grabher next.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Petra Martic vs. Shelby Rogers
- Erika Andreeva vs. Emma Navarro
- Ylena In-Albon vs. Claire Liu
- Elena Rybakina vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Clara Burel vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo: tuesday
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
- Lin Zhu vs. Lauren Davis
- Arantxa Rus vs. Julia Grabher: tuesday
- Linda Noskova beat Danka Kovinic: 6-3, 2-1 ret.
- Oceane Dodin beat Selena Janicijevic (WC): 0-6, 6-2, 6-1
- Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-3, 6-2
- Ons Jabeur (7) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-4, 6-1
- Diane Parry (WC) beat Anhelina Kalinina (25): 6-2, 6-3
- Xinyu Wang beat Marie Bouzkova (31): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Rebecca Peterson beat Fiona Ferro (Q): 6-2, 6-0
- Mirra Andreeva (Q) beat Alison Riske-Amritraj: 6-2, 6-1
- Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Tereza Martincova: 6-3, 7-5
- Simona Waltert (Q) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (Q): 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Petra Kvitova (10): 6-3, 6-4
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (23) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 2-6, 6-1
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Veronika Kudermetova (11): 6-3, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (14) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-1
- Anna Blinkova beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 6-2, 6-0
- Anna-Lena Friedsam beat Nao Hibino (LL): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Caroline Garcia (5) beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4
- Peyton Stearns beat Katerina Siniakova: 7-6 (7), 6-2
- Aliona Bolsova (LL) beat Kristina Kucova: 6-2, 6-1
- Elina Svitolina beat Martina Trevisan (26): 6-2, 6-2
- Yulia Putintseva beat Maryna Zanevska: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Varvara Gracheva beat Dalma Galfi: 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
- Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Belinda Bencic (12): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider beat Rebecca Marino: 6-3, 7-5
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Alycia Parks: 6-4, 6-0
- Sloane Stephens beat Karolina Pliskova (16): 6-0, 6-4
- Camila Osorio (LL) beat Ana Bogdan: 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Madison Keys (20) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 6-2
- Donna Vekic (22) beat Dayana Yastremska (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Bernarda Pera beat Anett Kontaveit: 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Kayla Day (Q) beat Kristina Mladenovic (WC): 7-5, 6-1
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Katie Volynets: 6-0, 6-1
- Irina-Camelia Begu (27) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 6-2
- Mayar Sherif beat Madison Brengle: 6-3, 6-1
- Sara Errani beat Jil Teichmann: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Anastasia Potapova (24) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Clara Tauson (Q) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-2, 6-0
- Qinwen Zheng (19) beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Camila Giorgi beat Alize Cornet: 6-3, 6-4
- Leolia Jeanjean (WC) beat Kimberly Birrell (WC): 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3
- Karolina Muchova beat Maria Sakkari (8): 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Leylah Fernandez beat Magda Linette (21): 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
- Elise Mertens (28) beat Viktoria Hruncakova (LL): 6-1, 6-4
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 6-0, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-3, 6-2
- Iryna Shymanovich (Q) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1
- Magdalena Frech beat Shuai Zhang (29): 6-1, 6-1
- Storm Hunter (Q) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Nadia Podoroska beat Jessika Ponchet (WC): 6-0, 6-2