Roland-Garros: Pera takes out seed Vekic, advances to third round
Bernarda Pera won against Donna Vekic 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday and will play Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the next round
Bernarda Pera 2023 (AI _ Reuters _ Panoramic)
American Bernarda Pera beat Croat Donna Vekic, the No 22 seed, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the third round of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday.
Pera, ranked No 36, will play Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto next.
In the previous round of the French Open, the American won against Estonian Anett Kontaveit (7-6 (6), 6-2).
Vekic, ranked No 22, defeated Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska (6-2, 7-5) in the previous round of the French Open.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Emma Navarro
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Olga Danilovic
- Oceane Dodin vs. Ons Jabeur
- Lauren Davis vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Julia Grabher vs. Coco Gauff
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam: thursday
- Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu: thursday
- Mirra Andreeva (Q) beat Diane Parry (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Xinyu Wang beat Rebecca Peterson: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (14) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Linda Noskova: 6-3, 6-3
- Kayla Day (Q) beat Madison Keys (20): 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Aliona Bolsova (LL): 6-3, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Leolia Jeanjean (WC): 6-0, 7-5
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-4
- Clara Tauson (Q) beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu (27) beat Sara Errani: 6-3, 6-0
- Sloane Stephens beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-1
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Iryna Shymanovich (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- 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
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
- Anna Blinkova beat Caroline Garcia (5): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova (24) 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)
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