Parry comes back from match point down to beat Anisimova, reaching the round of 16 at her home Slam for the first time
Diane Parry (No. 92), 23, came back from match point down in the third set to beat Amanda Anisimova (No. 6) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(3) on Court Philippe-Chatrier – into the Roland-Garros round of 16 for the first time in her career.
Diane Parry, Roland-Garros 2026 | © Ch. Caillaud / PsNewz
Diane Parry, the 23-year-old Frenchwoman ranked No. 92 in the world, came from two points away from defeat to beat sixth-seeded American Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(3) on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Saturday afternoon, reaching the round of 16 at Roland-Garros for the first time in her career, in her eighth main-draw appearance at the tournament.
The contest was the meeting of two players whose career arcs had run in opposite directions over the past four years. Anisimova, who was ranked No. 237 in the world two years ago, had climbed 231 places in 24 months to a top-six ranking and reached two Grand Slam finals in 2025.
Parry, who had beaten the defending champion Barbora Krejčíková in the first round of Roland-Garros in 2022 as a 19-year-old, had spent the four years since in the role her ranking suggested – a player who reached the third round of all four Slams but never carried it past that stage.
Confident Parry
Anisimova had spent only 96 minutes on court across her opening two matches, conceding just four games in total – a 6-3, 6-1 first-round win over Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah and a second-round win over Julia Grabher that ended 6-0 in her favour when the Austrian retired.
Parry, who had reached the title at the WTA 125 Trophée Clarins in Paris in early May for the second time in her career, took the opening set 6-3 with a single break that held up across the back end of the contest. Anisimova levelled the match 6-4 in the second. The third set tightened to a deciding tie-break under the Slam unified rules now in place,
It was Parry’s first top-10 win since the Krejčíková upset four years ago, and her first second week at any Grand Slam. She will face Polish qualifier Maja Chwalińska in the round of 16. Chwalińska, ranked outside the world’s top 100, presents the kind of opponent a player having a fairytale week could not have drawn better.
