Blinkova upsets home favourite and fifth seed Caroline Garcia on NINTH match point, through to third round

Russian Anna Blinkova reached the third round of Roland-Garros by edging out Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in Paris on Wednesday.

This is Blinkova’s first career Top 5 win, and means she equals her best career Slam result – she also reached the third round at Roland-Garros in 2019. Coincidentally, that was also her most recent match against Garcia – a match that Blinkova won then in three sets too.

Blinkova, ranked No 56, will play Ukrainian Elina Svitolina next.

Ahead of her victory, the Russian won against Belgian Ysaline Bonaventure (6-2, 6-0).

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Garcia, ranked No 5, edged out Chinese Xiyu Wang (7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4) in the previous round of the French Open.

Garcia had once again been France’s great hope – the first Frenchwoman to be seeded in the top five in Paris since Amelie Mauresmo in 2007 – but has never yet made it past the quarter-final stage, something she achieved in 2017.

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
• Magdalena Frech vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
• Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Sloane Stephens vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Iryna Shymanovich vs. Aryna Sabalenka: wednesday
• Karolina Muchova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Qinwen Zheng: wednesday
• Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-4
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: wednesday
• 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)