Roland-Garros: Mertens books spot in third round

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