Roland-Garros: Schmiedlova cruises past Kayla Day to reach the last 16

Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova won against American qualifier Kayla Day 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the last 16 of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Saturday afternoon.

Schmiedlova, ranked No 100, will face American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, next.

The Slovak beat Russian Veronika Kudermetova, the No 11 seed (6-3, 6-1) and Spanish lucky loser Aliona Bolsova (6-3, 6-4) in the previous rounds of the French Open.

Earlier in the tournament, Day, ranked No 138, won against French wildcard Kristina Mladenovic (7-5, 6-1) and edged out No 20 seed Madison Keys (6-2, 4-6, 6-4).

Paris (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):

• Olga Danilovic vs. Ons Jabeur
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Bernarda Pera: saturday
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-0, 6-0
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: saturday
• Coco Gauff beat Mirra Andreeva (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-1
• Elena Rybakina vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Karolina Muchova beat Irina-Camelia Begu (27): 6-3, 6-2
• Sloane Stephens beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 7-5
• Elina Svitolina beat Anna Blinkova: 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Anastasia Potapova (24): 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Elise Mertens (28) beat Jessica Pegula (3): 6-1, 6-3
• Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-0, 6-1