Roland-Garros: Stephens takes out seed Pliskova to reach second round

American Sloane Stephens beat Czech Karolina Pliskova, the No 16 seed, 6-0, 6-4 to advance to the second round of Roland-Garros at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Monday.

Stephens, ranked No 30, will play the winner of the match between Russian Varvara Gracheva and Hungarian Dalma Galfi next.

Pliskova, a former world No 1, reached the semi-final of Roland-Garros in 2017, but since then has never got past the third round in Paris.

Pliskova joins Maria Sakkari and Magda Linette as the seeds eliminated so far on the women’s side.

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

• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Ons Jabeur
• Selena Janicijevic vs. Oceane Dodin
• Olga Danilovic vs. Kateryna Baindl
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Petra Martic vs. Shelby Rogers
• Clara Burel vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Linda Noskova vs. Danka Kovinic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Coco Gauff
• Arantxa Rus vs. Julia Grabher
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Diane Parry
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Lin Zhu vs. Lauren Davis
• Erika Andreeva vs. Emma Navarro
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Xinyu Wang vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Rebecca Peterson vs. Fiona Ferro
• Ylena In-Albon vs. Claire Liu
• Iga Swiatek vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Tereza Martincova
• Anna Blinkova vs. Ysaline Bonaventure
• Simona Waltert vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
• Petra Kvitova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Nao Hibino vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Xiyu Wang
• Peyton Stearns vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Elina Svitolina vs. Martina Trevisan
• Tatjana Maria vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Aliona Bolsova vs. Kristina Kucova
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Belinda Bencic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Maryna Zanevska
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Dalma Galfi
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Alycia Parks
• Rebecca Marino vs. Diana Shnaider
• Camila Osorio (LL) beat Ana Bogdan: 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Madison Keys (20) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 6-2
• Donna Vekic (22) beat Dayana Yastremska (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• Bernarda Pera beat Anett Kontaveit: 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Kayla Day (Q) beat Kristina Mladenovic (WC): 7-5, 6-1
• Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-4
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Katie Volynets: 6-0, 6-1
• Irina-Camelia Begu (27) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 6-2
• Mayar Sherif beat Madison Brengle: 6-3, 6-1
• Sara Errani beat Jil Teichmann: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova (24) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Clara Tauson (Q) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-2, 6-0
• Qinwen Zheng (19) beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Camila Giorgi beat Alize Cornet: 6-3, 6-4
• Leolia Jeanjean (WC) beat Kimberly Birrell (WC): 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3
• Karolina Muchova beat Maria Sakkari (8): 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Leylah Fernandez beat Magda Linette (21): 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
• Elise Mertens (28) beat Viktoria Hruncakova (LL): 6-1, 6-4
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 6-0, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-3, 6-2
• Iryna Shymanovich (Q) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1
• Magdalena Frech beat Shuai Zhang (29): 6-1, 6-1
• Storm Hunter (Q) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Nadia Podoroska beat Jessika Ponchet (WC): 6-0, 6-2