Roland-Garros: Ofner fights back from two sets down to beat Baez, makes third round
Sebastian Ofner fought back to beat Baez 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (5). He’ll play the winner of the match between Moutet and Shevchenko in the next round
Austrian Sebastian Ofner eventually beat Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 20 seed, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (5) to advance to the third round of Roland-Garros in Paris.
Ofner, ranked No 45, will face the winner of the match between Frenchman Corentin Moutet and Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko next.
The Austrian overhauled French wildcard Terence Atmane (3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 7-5) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Roland-Garros 2024, Baez, ranked No 20, defeated Brazilian qualifier Gustavo Heide (4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3).
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Gael Monfils vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Taylor Fritz vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Casper Ruud: thursday
- Francisco Cerundolo vs. Filip Misolic: thursday
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Alexander Bublik: thursday
- Karen Khachanov vs. Jozef Kovalik: thursday
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Giulio Zeppieri: thursday
- Mariano Navone vs. Tomas Machac: thursday
- Alex De Minaur vs. Jaume Munar: thursday
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Holger Rune
- Fabio Fognini vs. Tommy Paul: thursday
- Ben Shelton vs. Kei Nishikori: thursday
- Corentin Moutet vs. Alexander Shevchenko: thursday
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-4, 6-1, 6-2
- Alexander Zverev (4) beat David Goffin: 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-2
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Zhizhen Zhang: thursday
- Tallon Griekspoor (26) beat Luciano Darderi: 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-3
- Grigor Dimitrov (10) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-0, 6-3, 6-4
- Zizou Bergs (Q) beat Maximilian Marterer: 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
- Denis Shapovalov beat Frances Tiafoe (25): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Sebastian Korda (27) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (21) beat Henri Squire (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Alexandre Muller (WC): 6-4, 6-1, 6-3
- Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-1, 5-0 ret.
- Jannik Sinner (2) beat Richard Gasquet (WC): 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
- Pavel Kotov beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-6 (5), 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (5)
- Andrey Rublev (6) beat Pedro Martinez: 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Jesper De Jong (Q): 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4