Roland-Garros: Gracheva beats Begu to move into last 16

Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva reached the last 16 of Roland-Garros by beating Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 7-5, 6-3 in Paris.

Gracheva, ranked No 88, will play the winner of the match between Russian Mirra Andreeva and American Peyton Stearns next.

The Frenchwoman beat Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 6 seed (3-6, 6-4, 6-3) and American Bernarda Pera (6-1, 6-3) ahead of her victory.

In the previous rounds, Begu, ranked No 127, won against Argentinian qualifier Julia Riera (6-2, 6-2) and No 27 seed Linda Noskova (6-4, 6-2).

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

• Madison Keys vs. Emma Navarro
• Elina Svitolina vs. Ana Bogdan
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Paula Badosa vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elise Mertens vs. Elena Rybakina: saturday
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Elina Avanesyan: saturday
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 6-2
• Ons Jabeur (8) beat Leylah Fernandez (31): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Clara Tauson beat Sofia Kenin: 6-2, 7-5
• Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Anastasia Potapova beat Xinyu Wang: 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-4
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 6-2, 6-4
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Liudmila Samsonova (17): 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Donna Vekic: 0-6, 7-5, 7-6 (8)