Roland-Garros: Samsonova breezes past Anisimova to reach third round
Liudmila Samsonova beat Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-1 and will face the winner of the match between Cristina Bucsa and Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the next round
Liudmila Samsonova – Zuma / Panoramic
Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 17 seed, beat American Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-1 to move into the third round of Roland-Garros in Paris.
Samsonova, ranked No 17, will play the winner of the match between Spaniard Cristina Bucsa and Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto next.
In the previous round, the Russian beat Pole Magda Linette (6-1, 6-1).
Anisimova, ranked No 231, won against Slovak qualifier Rebecca Sramkova (7-6 (6), 6-4) during 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: thursday
- 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
- Marketa Vondrousova (5) 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: thursday
- 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
- Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Katerina Siniakova (32): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6)
- 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
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