Roland-Garros: Stephens steamrolls Gracheva to reach third round
Sloane Stephens defeated Varvara Gracheva 6-2, 6-1 on Wednesday and will play Kazakh Yulia Putintseva in the next round
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American Sloane Stephens won against Russian Varvara Gracheva 6-2, 6-1 to reach the third round of Roland-Garros.
Stephens, ranked No 30, will face Kazakh Yulia Putintseva next.
The American defeated Czech Karolina Pliskova, the No 16 seed (6-0, 6-4) in the previous round of the French Open.
In the first round of the French Open, Gracheva, ranked No 41, won against Hungarian Dalma Galfi (6-4, 2-6, 6-1).
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Lauren Davis vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Emma Navarro
- Oceane Dodin vs. Ons Jabeur
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Olga Danilovic
- Julia Grabher vs. Coco Gauff
- Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu
- Bernarda Pera vs. Donna Vekic
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Simona Waltert
- Diane Parry vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Rebecca Peterson vs. Xinyu Wang
- Diana Shnaider vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Petra Martic
- Elena Rybakina vs. Linda Noskova
- Kayla Day vs. Madison Keys
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Aliona Bolsova
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Magdalena Frech vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
- Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu: wednesday
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Iryna Shymanovich (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- Karolina Muchova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva beat Qinwen Zheng (19): 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-4
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Liudmila Samsonova (15): 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
- Anna Blinkova beat Caroline Garcia (5): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova (24) beat Mayar Sherif: 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2 ret.
- Peyton Stearns beat Jelena Ostapenko (17): 6-3, 1-6, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina beat Storm Hunter (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Elise Mertens (28) beat Camila Osorio (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
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