Roland-Garros: Giorgi moves into third round
Camila Giorgi won against Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday afternoon and will face the winner of the next match between American Madison Brengle and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 7 seed, in the next round.
Italian Camila Giorgi, the No 28 seed, won against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 7-5 to move into the third round of Roland-Garros on Thursday afternoon.
Giorgi, ranked No 30, will face the winner of the next match between American Madison Brengle and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 7 seed, next.
The Italian defeated Chinese Shuai Zhang (3-6, 6-2, 6-2) in the previous round, while Putintseva, ranked No 37, beat Romanian qualifier Irina Bara (6-3, 6-1).
Paris (Grand Slam): Other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 43.600.000, most recent results first):
- Madison Keys (22) beat Caroline Garcia: 6-4, 7-6 [3]
- Elena Rybakina (16) beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-4, 6-0
- Danka Kovinic beat Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-3, 7-5
- Daria Kasatkina (20) beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (Q): 6-0, 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova (29) beat Aleksandra Krunic (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Paula Badosa (3) beat Kaja Juvan: 7-5, 3-6, 6-2
- Leolia Jeanjean (WC) beat Karolina Pliskova (8): 6-2, 6-2
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (30): 6-7 [3], 6-3, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (11) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
- Diane Parry beat Maria Camila Osorio Serrano: 6-3, 6-3
- Daria Saville (WC) beat Petra Kvitova (32): 6-4, 6-2
- Martina Trevisan beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic (14) beat Bianca Andreescu: 6-2, 6-4
- Varvara Gracheva beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-4, 6-7 [5], 7-5
- Sloane Stephens beat Sorana Cirstea (26): 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
- Leylah Fernandez (17) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 6-2
- Kaia Kanepi beat Beatriz Haddad Maia: 6-4, 6-4
- Elise Mertens beat Marie Bouzkova
- Cori Coco Gauff (18) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-1, 7-6 [4]
- Amanda Anisimova (27) beat Donna Vekic (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Karolina Muchova beat Maria Sakkari (4): 7-6 [5], 7-6 [4]
- Angelique Kerber (21) beat Elsa Jacquemot (WC): 6-1, 7-6 [2]
- Jil Teichmann (23) beat Olga Danilovic (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Victoria Azarenka (15) beat Andrea Petkovic: 6-1, 7-6 [3]
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Emma Raducanu (12): 3-6, 6-1, 6-1