Roland-Garros: Rus defeats Kerber, sets up Rybakina clash

Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus beat former world No 1 Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-3 to move into the second round of Roland-Garros at Roland-Garros in Paris on Tuesday.

Rus, ranked No 50, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, next.

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Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53,478,000):

• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Erika Andreeva: 6-1, 6-2
• Elina Avanesyan beat Lin Zhu: 6-2, 6-4
• Petra Martic beat Kristina Mladenovic (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Alize Cornet (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Elena Rybakina beat Greet Minnen: 6-2, 6-3
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
• Bernarda Pera beat Nao Hibino: 6-2, 6-0
• Ana Bogdan beat Elsa Jacquemot (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Julia Riera (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Cristina Bucsa beat Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Diane Parry beat Fiona Ferro (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Linda Noskova (27) beat Harriet Dart: 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Varvara Gracheva beat Maria Sakkari (6): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Bianca Andreescu beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 7-5, 6-1
• Elina Svitolina (15) beat Karolina Pliskova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Anhelina Kalinina: 3-6, 7-6 (2), 4-1 ret.
• Anna Kalinskaya (23) beat Clara Burel: 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20) beat Panna Udvardy (LL): 6-3, 6-4
• Danielle Collins (11) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 6-4
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Jessika Ponchet (WC): 6-2, 6-0
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Julia Avdeeva (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (16): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Ons Jabeur (8) beat Sachia Vickery (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
• Hailey Baptiste (LL) beat Kayla Day: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Magda Linette: 6-1, 6-1
• Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-1, 6-3
• Anastasia Potapova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-3
• Katie Volynets (Q) beat Aleksandra Krunic: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-1, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 0-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Viktorija Golubic beat Barbora Krejcikova (24): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Tamara Zidansek (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
• Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
• Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-3, 6-1
• Xiyu Wang beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-3
• Amanda Anisimova beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (21) beat Eva Lys (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova (32) beat Dalma Galfi (LL): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Sofia Kenin beat Laura Siegemund: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 7-5
• Jana Fett (LL) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
• Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Laura Pigossi (Q): 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Naomi Osaka beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
• Dayana Yastremska (30) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Yafan Wang beat Maria Timofeeva: 6-3, 6-3
• Marie Bouzkova beat Veronika Kudermetova (29): 6-2, 6-4
• Donna Vekic beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-5 ret.
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
• Katie Boulter vs. Paula Badosa
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Irene Burillo Escorihuela vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Emma Navarro
• Sara Errani vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Yue Yuan vs. Mayar Sherif
• Madison Keys vs. Renata Zarazua
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Emina Bektas
• Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Lucija Ciric Bagaric vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elise Mertens vs. Maria Lourdes Carle
• Anna Blinkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Tamara Korpatsch