Roland-Garros: Azarenka beats Wickmayer 6-0, 6-0

Belarusian Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of Roland-Garros by defeating Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 6-0, 6-0 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Tuesday.

Victoria Azarenka has become the oldest player in the Open Era to win a Women’s Singles Grand Slam main draw match with a 6-0 6-0 scoreline (surpassing the previous record held by Venus Williams in Wimbledon 2015).

Only Maria Sharapova and Kim Clijsters (six each) have won more Women’s Singles Grand Slam matches with a 6-0 6-0 scoreline than Victoria Azarenka (five) since 2000, surpassing Serena Williams (four).

Azarenka, ranked No 75, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva and American Sofia Kenin, the No 31 seed, next.

Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 56.352.000, most recent results first):

• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Ann Li
• Karolina Muchova vs. Alycia Parks
• Solana Sierra vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Katie Volynets vs. Joanna Garland

• Lois Boisson vs. Elise Mertens
• Sonay Kartal vs. Erika Andreeva
• Anca Todoni vs. Jessica Pegula
• Elsa Jacquemot vs. Maria Sakkari
• Olivia Gadecki vs. Coco Gauff
• Magdalena Frech vs. Ons Jabeur
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Suzan Lamens vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Chloe Paquet vs. Tereza Valentova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Sofia Kenin
• Nao Hibino vs. Moyuka Uchijima: tuesday
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Hailey Baptiste: tuesday
• Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Marketa Vondrousova: tuesday
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Cristina Bucsa: tuesday
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Taylor Townsend (LL): 6-3, 6-2
• Caroline Dolehide beat Greet Minnen: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Leolia Jeanjean (WC) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 0-6, 7-5, 3-0 ret.
• Clara Tauson (22) beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
• Madison Keys (7) beat Daria Saville (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Arantxa Rus beat Camila Osorio: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (20) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-2
• Barbora Krejcikova (15) beat Tatjana Maria: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Jelena Ostapenko (21) beat Polina Kudermetova: 5-7, 6-0, 6-2
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse beat McCartney Kessler: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Katie Boulter beat Carole Monnet (Q): 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1
• Daria Kasatkina (17) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
• Ajla Tomljanovic beat Maya Joint: 6-1, 6-3
• Bernarda Pera beat Caroline Garcia: 6-4, 6-4
• Danielle Collins beat Jodie Burrage: 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Paula Badosa (10) beat Naomi Osaka: 6-7 (1), 6-1, 6-4
• Jaqueline Cristian beat Kimberly Birrell: 6-1, 6-0
• Robin Montgomery beat Diane Parry (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Liudmila Samsonova (19) beat Mayar Sherif: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (5) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-3, 6-3
• Emma Raducanu beat Xinyu Wang: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-5, 6-1
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Emma Navarro (9): 6-0, 6-1
• Elena Rybakina (12) beat Julia Riera (Q): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
• Yuliia Starodubtseva (LL) beat Tamara Korpatsch (Q): 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Sara Bejlek (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk (26): 6-3, 6-1
• Anastasia Potapova beat Linda Noskova (29): 5-7, 6-1, 7-5
• Jasmine Paolini (4) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• Olga Danilovic beat Leylah Fernandez (27): 6-3, 6-1
• Iva Jovic (WC) beat Renata Zarazua: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Amanda Anisimova (16) beat Nina Stojanovic (Q): 6-3, 4-1 ret.
• Donna Vekic (18) beat Anna Blinkova: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1
• Leyre Romero Gormaz (Q) beat Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Diana Shnaider (11) beat Anastasiia Sobolieva (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Jil Teichmann beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-4, 6-3
• Dayana Yastremska beat Destanee Aiava (WC): 7-5, 6-1
• Emiliana Arango beat Alexandra Eala: 6-0, 2-6, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-1, 6-0
• Anna Bondar beat Laura Siegemund: 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Eva Lys beat Peyton Stearns (28): 6-0, 6-3
• Viktorija Golubic beat Petra Kvitova: 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (13) beat Zeynep Sonmez: 6-1, 6-1
• Victoria Mboko (Q) beat Lulu Sun: 6-1, 7-6 (4)