Roland-Garros: Stearns labours to win over qualifier Bagaric, makes second round
Peyton Stearns edged out Lucija Ciric Bagaric 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6). She’ll face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, in the next round
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American Peyton Stearns edged out Croat qualifier Lucija Ciric Bagaric 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6) to advance to the second round of Roland-Garros in Paris.
Stearns, ranked No 62, will face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, next.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
- Katie Boulter vs. Paula Badosa
- Sara Errani vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Irene Burillo Escorihuela vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Yue Yuan vs. Mayar Sherif
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Emina Bektas
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Emma Navarro
- Madison Keys vs. Renata Zarazua: tuesday
- Daria Kasatkina beat Magdalena Frech: 7-5, 6-1
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Erika Andreeva: 6-1, 6-2
- Arantxa Rus beat Angelique Kerber: 6-4, 6-3
- Elina Avanesyan beat Lin Zhu: 6-2, 6-4
- Elise Mertens (25) beat Maria Lourdes Carle: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
- Petra Martic beat Kristina Mladenovic (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Anna Blinkova beat Sorana Cirstea (28): 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Tamara Korpatsch: tuesday
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Alize Cornet (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (4) 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.
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