Roland-Garros: Paolini eases into third round

Italian Jasmine Paolini, the No 12 seed, reached the third round of Roland-Garros by winning against American lucky loser Hailey Baptiste 6-4, 7-6 (6) at Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday evening.

Paolini, ranked No 15, will play the winner of the match between Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 23 seed, and Canadian Bianca Andreescu next.

Ahead of her victory, the Italian beat Australian Daria Saville (6-3, 6-4).

Baptiste, ranked No 107, won against Kayla Day (4-6, 6-2, 6-2) in the previous round.

Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):

• Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva: thursday
• Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: thursday
• Varvara Gracheva beat Bernarda Pera: 6-1, 6-3
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu: thursday
• Peyton Stearns beat Daria Kasatkina (10): 7-5, 6-2
• Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-2
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Linda Noskova (27): 6-4, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (22) beat Sara Errani (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• Elina Avanesyan beat Anna Blinkova: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Jana Fett (LL): 6-2, 6-2
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-1, 6-4
• Elise Mertens (25) beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 6-3
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-4
• Madison Keys (14) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-0, 7-6 (7)
• Clara Tauson beat Jelena Ostapenko (9): 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-2, 6-1
• Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 0-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (15) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Danielle Collins (11): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
• 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