Roland-Garros: Paquet into third round
Chloe Paquet edged out Katerina Siniakova 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6) on Thursday and will face No 5 seed Marketa Vondrousova in the next round
Chloé Paquet – Michael Baucher / Panoramic
French wildcard Chloe Paquet moved into the third round of Roland-Garros by edging out No 32 seed Katerina Siniakova 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6) at Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday.
Paquet, ranked No 136, will play No 5 seed Marketa Vondrousova next.
In the previous round, the Frenchwoman won against Russian Diana Shnaider (6-3, 6-1).
Siniakova, ranked No 33, defeated Hungarian lucky loser Dalma Galfi (7-5, 7-6 (3)) in the first round.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Sara Errani vs. Emma Navarro
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Linda Noskova
- Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jana Fett vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: thursday
- Elise Mertens vs. Petra Martic: thursday
- Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-4
- Madison Keys vs. Mayar Sherif: thursday
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson: thursday
- Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-2, 6-1
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Katie Volynets (Q): 0-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (15) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Danielle Collins vs. Olga Danilovic
- Elena Rybakina (4) 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
- 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