Roland-Garros: Jabeur needs three sets to reach third round
The Tunisian will play the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 31 seed, and Chinese Xiyu Wang in the next round
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, the No 8 seed, advanced to the third round of Roland-Garros after a three-set win over Colombia’s Camila Osorio in Paris on Wednesday.
After winning the first set 6-3, Jabeur was outplayed by Osorio, who captured the second set 6-1. The Tunisian regroup in the decider and won the third set, which featured five breaks of serve, 6-3 to win the match.
Jabeur, ranked No 9, will play the winner of the match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 31 seed, and Chinese Xiyu Wang next.
The Tunisian defeated American wildcard Sachia Vickery (6-3, 6-2) earlier in the week.
In the previous round, Osorio, ranked No 77, benefited from the retirement of Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina (3-6, 7-6 (2), 4-1).
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53,478,000, most recent results first):
- Sofia Kenin beat Caroline Garcia (21): 6-3, 6-3
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Paula Badosa vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Sara Errani vs. Emma Navarro
- Madison Keys vs. Mayar Sherif
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Linda Noskova
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Arantxa Rus vs. Elena Rybakina
- Elise Mertens vs. Petra Martic
- Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Elina Svitolina vs. Diane Parry
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anna Blinkova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Coco Gauff vs. Tamara Zidansek
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Chloe Paquet
- Iga Swiatek vs. Naomi Osaka
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson
- Yafan Wang vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Donna Vekic vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Danielle Collins vs. Olga Danilovic
- Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Xiyu Wang
- Katie Volynets vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Jana Fett vs. Marie Bouzkova