Roland-Garros: Pavlyuchenkova into third round
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova edged out Liudmila Samsonova 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 on Wednesday afternoon and will face Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 24 seed, in the next round
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova moved into the third round of Roland-Garros by edging out No 15 seed Liudmila Samsonova 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Wednesday.
Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 333, will face Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 24 seed, next.
In the previous round of the French Open, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Czech Linda Fruhvirtova (6-2, 6-2).
Samsonova, ranked No 15, won against American Katie Volynets (6-0, 6-1) in the first round of the French Open.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Lauren Davis vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Emma Navarro
- Oceane Dodin vs. Ons Jabeur
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Olga Danilovic
- Julia Grabher vs. Coco Gauff
- Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu
- Bernarda Pera vs. Donna Vekic
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Simona Waltert
- Diane Parry vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Rebecca Peterson vs. Xinyu Wang
- Diana Shnaider vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Petra Martic
- Elena Rybakina vs. Linda Noskova
- Kayla Day vs. Madison Keys
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Aliona Bolsova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
- Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Sloane Stephens vs. Varvara Gracheva: wednesday
- Iryna Shymanovich vs. Aryna Sabalenka: wednesday
- Karolina Muchova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva beat Qinwen Zheng (19): 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-4
- Anna Blinkova beat Caroline Garcia (5): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova beat Mayar Sherif: 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2 ret.
- Peyton Stearns beat Jelena Ostapenko (17): 6-3, 1-6, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina beat Storm Hunter (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Elise Mertens (28) beat Camila Osorio (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (3)