Roland-Garros: Putintseva upsets Qinwen Zheng in three sets to make third round
Yulia Putintseva defeated Qinwen Zheng 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 on Wednesday. She’ll play the winner of the match between American Sloane Stephens and Russian Varvara Gracheva in the next round
Kazakh Yulia Putintseva moved into the third round of Roland-Garros by beating Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 19 seed, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Putintseva, ranked No 58, will play the winner of the match between American Sloane Stephens and Russian Varvara Gracheva next.
The Kazakh won against Belgian Maryna Zanevska (7-5, 7-6 (3)) in the previous round of the French Open.
In the previous round of the French Open, Zheng, ranked No 19, won against Slovenian qualifier Tamara Zidansek (6-3, 6-1).
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
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
- Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Sloane Stephens vs. Varvara Gracheva: wednesday
- Iryna Shymanovich vs. Aryna Sabalenka: wednesday
- Karolina Muchova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-4
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: wednesday
- 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)