Roland-Garros: Danilovic beats Paolini to make third round
Olga Danilovic won against Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday evening and will play Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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Serb qualifier Olga Danilovic defeated Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 7-5 to move into the third round of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday evening.
Danilovic, ranked No 105, will face Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 7 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old Serb won against Ukrainian Kateryna Baindl (6-3, 6-2).
Paolini, ranked No 53, beat Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 30 seed (7-5, 2-6, 6-2) in the previous round of the French Open.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Emma Navarro
- Lauren Davis vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Julia Grabher vs. Coco Gauff: thursday
- Ons Jabeur beat Oceane Dodin: 6-2, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (23) beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-2, 6-0
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Claire Liu: 6-4, 6-0
- Bernarda Pera beat Donna Vekic (22): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva (Q) beat Diane Parry (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Simona Waltert (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Xinyu Wang beat Rebecca Peterson: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (14) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Linda Noskova: 6-3, 6-3
- Kayla Day (Q) beat Madison Keys (20): 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Aliona Bolsova (LL): 6-3, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Leolia Jeanjean (WC): 6-0, 7-5
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-4
- Clara Tauson (Q) beat Leylah Fernandez: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu (27) beat Sara Errani: 6-3, 6-0
- Sloane Stephens beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-1
- 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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