Roland-Garros: Former champion Ostapenko falls, Stearns books spot in third round
Peyton Stearns won against Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 on Wednesday and will play the winner of the match between Czech Marketa Vondrousova and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 9 seed, in the next round
Jelena Ostapenko in Rome (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
American Peyton Stearns beat Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 17 seed, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to advance to the third round of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Wednesday.
Stearns, ranked No 69, will face the winner of the match between Czech Marketa Vondrousova and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 9 seed, next.
The 21-year-old American won against Czech Katerina Siniakova (7-6 (7), 6-2) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round of the French Open, Ostapenko, ranked No 17, defeated Czech Tereza Martincova (6-3, 7-5).
She joins a lengthy list of other eliminated seeds: in the first three days, the draw lost Maria Sakkari (8), Petra Kvitova (10), Veronika Kudermetova (11), Belinda Bencic (12), Barbora Krejcikova (13), Karolina Pliskova (16), Victoria Azarenka (18), Magda Linette (21), Anhelina Kalinina (25), Martina Trevisan (26), Shuai Zhang (29), Sorana Cirstea (30), Marie Bouzkova (31), Shelby Rogers (32).
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
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
- Mayar Sherif vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2 ret.
- Storm Hunter vs. Elina Svitolina: wednesday
- Elise Mertens vs. Camila Osorio: wednesday
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