Roland-Garros: Stearns upsets No 10 seed Kasatkina
Peyton Stearns won against Daria Kasatkina 7-5, 6-2 on Thursday evening. She’ll play the winner of Victoria Azarenka and Mirra Andreeva next
Peyton Stearns
American Peyton Stearns reached the third round of Roland-Garros by winning against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, 7-5, 6-2 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday evening.
Stearns, ranked No 62, will play the winner of the match between Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 19 seed, and Russian Mirra Andreeva next.
In the previous round, the 22-year-old American edged out Croat qualifier Lucija Ciric Bagaric (6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6)).
Kasatkina, ranked No 13, defeated Pole Magdalena Frech (7-5, 6-1) in the previous round.
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Mirra Andreeva: thursday
- Ana Bogdan vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: thursday
- Varvara Gracheva beat Bernarda Pera: 6-1, 6-3
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Bianca Andreescu: thursday
- Hailey Baptiste vs. Jasmine Paolini: thursday
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-2
- Irina-Camelia Begu beat Linda Noskova (27): 6-4, 6-2
- Emma Navarro (22) beat Sara Errani (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Elina Avanesyan beat Anna Blinkova: 6-3, 6-0
- Marie Bouzkova beat Jana Fett (LL): 6-2, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-1, 6-4
- Elise Mertens (25) beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-4
- Madison Keys (14) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-0, 7-6 (7)
- Clara Tauson beat Jelena Ostapenko (9): 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-2, 6-1
- Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 0-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (15) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Danielle Collins (11): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Moyuka Uchijima (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Yulia Putintseva: 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
- Dayana Yastremska (30) beat Yafan Wang: 6-2, 6-0
- Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Katerina Siniakova (32): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6)
- Donna Vekic beat Marta Kostyuk (18): 7-5, 6-4
- Xinyu Wang beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-5, 5-7, 6-1
- Anastasia Potapova beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-2, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5
- Ons Jabeur (8) beat Camila Osorio: 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
- Sofia Kenin beat Caroline Garcia (21): 6-3, 6-3
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