30-year-old Wang through to second round of Roland-Garros for the first time
Yafan Wang beat Maria Timofeeva 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday and will face the winner of the match between Australian wildcard Ajla Tomljanovic and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 30 seed, in the next round
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Chinese Yafan Wang advanced to the second round of Roland-Garros by beating Russian Maria Timofeeva 6-3, 6-3 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.
The 30-year-old Wang is through to the second round in Paris for the first time in three main draw appearances.
Wang, ranked No 68, will play the winner of the match between Australian wildcard Ajla Tomljanovic and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 30 seed, next.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53,478,000, most recent results first):
- Marie Bouzkova beat Veronika Kudermetova (29): 6-2, 6-4
- Donna Vekic beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-5 ret.
- Erika Andreeva vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Irene Burillo Escorihuela vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
- Katie Boulter vs. Paula Badosa
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Emma Navarro
- Sara Errani vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Yue Yuan vs. Mayar Sherif
- Madison Keys vs. Renata Zarazua
- Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Lucija Ciric Bagaric vs. Peyton Stearns
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Emina Bektas
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Greet Minnen vs. Elena Rybakina
- Arantxa Rus vs. Angelique Kerber
- Petra Martic vs. Kristina Mladenovic
- Elise Mertens vs. Maria Lourdes Carle
- Anna Blinkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Lin Zhu vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Alize Cornet
- Sachia Vickery vs. Ons Jabeur
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Camila Osorio
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessika Ponchet
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Yulia Starodubtseva vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Magda Linette
- Coco Gauff vs. Julia Avdeeva
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Leolia Jeanjean
- Harriet Dart vs. Linda Noskova
- Julia Riera vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Bernarda Pera vs. Nao Hibino
- Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Panna Udvardy vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Ana Bogdan
- Fiona Ferro vs. Diane Parry
- Elina Svitolina vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Daria Saville vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Oceane Dodin vs. Kayla Day
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Clara Burel
- Alison Van Uytvanck vs. Tamara Zidansek
- Katie Volynets vs. Aleksandra Krunic
- Olga Danilovic vs. Martina Trevisan
- Xinyu Wang vs. Jule Niemeier
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Eva Lys vs. Caroline Garcia
- Xiyu Wang vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
- Tatjana Maria vs. Clara Tauson
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Chloe Paquet vs. Diana Shnaider
- Laura Siegemund vs. Sofia Kenin
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Dalma Galfi
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Jana Fett
- Laura Pigossi vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Naomi Osaka
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Dayana Yastremska
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