Roland-Garros: Mertens reaches third round, to meet Pegula next

Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 28 seed, advanced to the third round of Roland-Garros by defeating Colombian lucky loser Camila Osorio 6-3, 7-6 (3) at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Wednesday.

Mertens, ranked No 28, will face American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, next.

In the previous round of the French Open, the Belgian won against Slovak lucky loser Viktoria Hruncakova (6-1, 6-4).

Osorio, ranked No 86, edged out Romanian Ana Bogdan (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) during the first round of the French Open.

Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49.600.000, most recent results first):

• Oceane Dodin vs. Ons Jabeur
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Olga Danilovic
• Bernarda Pera vs. Donna Vekic
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Simona Waltert
• Diana Shnaider vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Petra Martic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Linda Noskova
• Julia Grabher vs. Coco Gauff
• Diane Parry vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Kayla Day vs. Madison Keys
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Aliona Bolsova
• Lauren Davis vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Emma Navarro
• Rebecca Peterson vs. Xinyu Wang
• Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu
• Magdalena Frech vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
• Iryna Shymanovich vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Sloane Stephens vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Karolina Muchova vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova: wednesday
• Mayar Sherif vs. Anastasia Potapova: wednesday
• Jessica Pegula 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